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Havoc's sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series. #11.)
Par Dewey Lambdin. 2003
English Foreign Office spies meet captain Alan Lewrie in the Caribbean and order him back into the battle for French…
colony Saint Domingue. Using bribery, diplomacy, and the fledgling American navy, Lewrie confronts his archenemy Guillaume Choundas. Sequel to "Sea of Grey"; followed by "The Captain's Vengeance". 2003.Ghosts, gales and gold
Par Edward Rowe Snow. 1972
Golden lion: a novel of heroes in a time of war (The Courtneys of Africa ; #13)
Par Giles Kristian, Wilbur A Smith. 2015
Hal Courtney has always lived at sea. Now a truce has been made between the warring countries and Hal is…
captain of his own ship; the Golden Bough. From the slave markets of Zanzibar to the pirate-riddled waters of the Indian Ocean, Hal leads his crew in and out of the waves of danger. But he soon realizes that just because the war is over, does not mean the battle is won, and the more a man achieves, the more he has to lose. Sequel to "Assegai". 2015.Frigate (Frigate trilogy. #1.)
Par John Wingate. 1980
The problems of human relationships set against the stark reality of modern warfare as HMS Icarus becomes involved in a…
skirmish with a Russian submarine that was to lead to graver things. 1980.Fire down below (To the ends of the earth ; #3)
Par William Golding. 1989
Edmund Talbot is aboard a decrepit old warship, which lurches towards Australia. At sea, the hulk is charged with the…
care and protection of the lives of her colourful crew. Edward Talbot's progression towards self realisation is as turbulent as the voyage of his ship. Sequel to "Close Quarters"(DC31504). 1989. (To the ends of the earth ; 3)Fergus Crane (Far-flung adventures. #1.)
Par Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart. 2005
Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbours, and helping with his…
mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure. Grades 2-4. 2005. (Far-flung adventures ; 1)Departure
Par Janet Stevenson. 1985
Amanda Bright, the young wife of the captain, sets out on a journey with her husband in 1851. When the…
first mate, and then her husband, become ill, Amanda must command a sullen crew across the vast north Pacific. 1985.Desolation island (Jack Aubrey ; #5)
Par Patrick O'Brian. 1978
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the…
Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. Sequel to "Mauritius command" . Followed by "The fortune of war" .1998. (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels ; 5)Billy Budd
Par Herman Melville. 1981
A naive, innocent sailor, Billy Budd, is cruelly antagonized and unjustly accused by his evil master-at-arms. Speechless with rage over…
the accusation, Billy strikes and kills his petty officer, forcing their captain to order his execution. 1981.Crackdown
Par Bernard Cornwell. 1990
Nick Breakspear may look like the perfect Hamlet, but he wanted nothing to do with the theatrical world inhabited by…
his father, Britain's greatest living actor. So he joined the Royal Marines and is now sailing the blue waters of the Bahamas. But dreams of paradise are shattered when he becomes swept into a small but deadly corner of a war against the drug-runners that infest the area. Caught up in a world that denies every truth he believes in, the only defence is to draw on the despised skills of his father's world and fight with reckless courage. 1990.Cross of St. George (Richard Bolitho novels. #24.)
Par Alexander Kent. 1996
Set in 1813, the Royal Navy admiral Sir Richard Bolito returns to Halifax to pursue the sea war with the…
young United States. Although he personally desires peace, the admiral is caught up in a war that neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. Sequel to "For my country's freedom", followed by "Sword of honour" .1996. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 24)Buccaneer: a novel (Ned Yorke Ser. #Bk. 1)
Par Dudley Pope. 1984
Ned Yorke, manager of a plantation in Barbados, loves Aurelia, the wife of a neighbouring planter. To avoid arrest by…
the Cromwellians, he flees with Aurelia. They become traders and eventually pirates. 1984.Corby Flood (Far-flung adventures. #2)
Par Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart. 2006
While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men,…
clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns, as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold. Grades 3-6. Sequel to "Fergus Crane" (DC29167). 2005. (Far-flung adventures ; 2)Cap sur l'enfer
Par Ian Slater, Gilbert LaRocque. 1978
Captain Blood (Penguin classics)
Par Rafael Sabatini. 2003
Great Britain, 1685. When physician Peter Blood is accused of treason against King James II for treating a wounded rebel,…
he is sentenced to slavery in Barbados. Once on the island he escapes to become a buccaneer--and eventually governor of Jamaica. 2003 introduction by Gary Hoppenstand. 1922, c2003."Hornblower and the Atropos": Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral is not Hornblower's idea of action but soon he is…
ordered to set sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos. "The happy return": Hornblower sails the South American waters and comes face to face with a mad, messianic revolutionary. "A ship of the line": Commando raids, hurricanes at sea, the glowering menace of Napoleon's gun batteries; all these Hornblower must face as he sails his ship to the Spanish station. Sequel to "Hornblower and the Hotspur"(DC29058). 1987. (Hornblower ; 4-6)Capt. Hook: the adventures of a notorious youth
Par James V Hart, J. M Barrie. 2005
The youth of notorious villain Captain Hook, from his days at Eton. When he arrives at the famous school, James…
(the future Hook) has never known his mother and barely knows his father, so he channels his loneliness and rage into plotting revenge against sadistic classmates. At last, he escapes to the high seas, but he unwittingly boards a slave ship that reveals horrifying brutality and family secrets. Some strong language. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005.Canadian stories of the sea
Par Victor Suthren. 1993
A sampling of stories which capture Canada's long and exciting history of sea-faring. The tranquillity of Edwardian yachting, bloody sea…
battles, and special ships like the Bluenose are featured. Writers include Thomas Raddall, E. Pauline Johnson, and Farley Mowat. 1993.Band of brothers (Richard Bolitho ; #2)
Par Alexander Kent. 2006
The new year seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have…
been recommended for promotion, although they have not yet gained the coveted lieutenant's commission. But a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes, for Bolitho, a passage from midshipman to King's officer, tempering the promise of the future with the bitter price of maturity. Sequel to "Midshipman Bolitho". 2006. (Richard Bolitho ; 2)Adrift
Par Allan Baillie. 1983
Feeling every inch the pirate under his crimson shirt and black swimming trunks, Flynn rocked the upturned crate a little.…
Of course, small sister Sally was poor material for a crew, but at least the thing was floating. "We're sailing for the Caribbean" he announced. The trouble was, they were! Grades 3-6. 1983.