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After a century of war, revolutions, and imperial conquests, 1790s Europe is still embroiled in a battle for control of the sea and colonies. Tall ships navigate familiar and foreign waters, and ambitious young men without rank or status seek their futures in naval commands. First Lieutenant Alexander Clay of the frigate Agrius is self-made, clever, and ready for the new age. But the old world, dominated by patronage, retains a tight hold on advancement.

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and its unimaginable final journey. When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely...

In this haunting poem, a guest on his way to a wedding reception is stopped by the Ancient Mariner. With his "glittering eye" he transfixes the guest and then relates a compelling tale of a sea voyage fraught with strange happenings. The Mariner tells of journeying through tyrannous storms to ice mast-high, through mist and snow to the deadly inertia of the doldrums. There are unearthly visitations, ill omens, and supernatural happenings - all leading to the revelation of the Mariner's strange fate.

After 30 rough years of adventure on the seas, Jake Thomas makes landfall in a new and quiet life in Oregon - only to discover that the past dies hard. The secrets he's kept, even from himself, won't stay buried. Forty years earlier, a beautiful, young woman was murdered during Jake's first voyage as a deck cadet on an American freighter. Her children, now grown, want answers only Jake can give. What really happened that terrible night? Did the wrong man go to jail?

A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage. The challenge of a man against the wonders of nature's ocean, of a man against his own weakness and strengths, and of a man against a demon, or perhaps his God, as he searches for his nemesis, the great white whale.

The venue is booked, the dress is picked and senior midwife Anna Jones only has to say ‘I do!’ to the man she loves! Theirs might have been a whirlwind romance but Brae Penrose is everything Anna dreamed her husband would be, and she can’t wait to start a family with him. But as the big day approaches, Anna still isn’t pregnant and when disaster strikes, their perfect day looks destined not to happen at all! Is it a sign to slow things down?

In the world of maritime treasure hunting, former college professor Walt Baker is about to hit the lottery. More than 300 years ago, the legendary Spanish galleon Santa Ramona sank in a hurricane somewhere off the coast of Florida. The ship was carrying gold, silver, jewels, and artifacts worth an estimated $10 billion in today’s dollars. With $10 billion at stake, the best criminal minds will scheme to take what’s not theirs.

From the acclaimed author of The Winter Family, a swash-buckling adventure from piracy's Golden Age and a deft political allegory for our troubled times. Treasure Island meets Lord of the Flies. In 1721, when the most notorious pirates are either dead or on the run, Jimmy Kavanagh, who sailed...

Roman drame. Huis clos. Une fille et des hommes costauds face à des soldats de l'Empire et à des policiers du Royaume. Tout se passe en une nuit terrible sur un Rhône en crue. "La table du roi", c'est ce rocher à fleur d'eau, au milieu du fleuve : là où patron Mathias a amarré sa barge alors que Napoléon vient de débarquer à Golfe-Juan et monte vers la capitale. Quelques heures seulement qui décideront du sort de ces bateliers aux prises avec l'Histoire.

Nostromo is Conrad's masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. A profoundly dark moral fable set in the surroundings of a silver mine, it is a story of power, love, and revolution in the fictional South American country of Costaguana.

Del mare non sappiamo nulla, però ci illudiamo del contrario: passiamo una giornata in spiaggia e pensiamo di guardare il mare, invece vediamo solo “la sua buccia, la sua pelle salata e luccicante”. Forse perché appena sotto, e poi giù fino agli abissi, c’è una vita così diversa e strabiliante da sembrarci assurda, impossibile. Come per secoli è sembrata impossibile l’esistenza del calamaro gigante, il mostro marino che ha mosso alla sua ricerca gli esploratori più diversi.

Bütün samimiyetiyle herkese "Merhaba” diyerek söze başlayan Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (Halikarnas Balıkçısı) için yapılan yorumlardan bazılarını buraya bırakıyoruz: Her yazardan yalnız bir kere hikâye yayımlama prensibimizi Halikarnas Balıkçısı için bozuyor ve bundan gurur duyuyoruz. (Short Story International) Halikarnas Balıkçısı bana ne zaman rehberlik yapacak ise, Türkiye'ye o zaman gelmek isterim. (Georges Pompidou, Fransa'nın Eski Devlet Başkanı) Halikarnas Balıkçısı, çağdaş Homeros'tur. (Ullo, Belçika'nın Eski Turizm Bakanı).

The powerful debut novel from New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale is a moving story of love and family told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned marine biologist husband, and begins a journey across the country with Rebecca in search of understanding about her troubled past.

Part one in the brand new Roman pirate series by Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. It is AD 25. The Roman Empire stretches from Hispania in the west to Armenia in the east, Merchantmen roam the seas, transporting people, livestock and all manner of goods. And...

Wellingborough Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined. Mocked by the crew on board the Highlander for his weakness and bullied by the vicious and merciless sailor Jackson, Wellingborough must struggle to endure the long journey from New York to Liverpool.

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain.

John Seton, a grizzled British sailor, is a sea monster hunter. When he takes on a job for an exclusive yacht club in South East Asia he expects it to be a simple one. It's only one beastie after all. But all too soon John and his crew discover that they are in big trouble.

Após a explosão que afundou seu iate, um grupo de sobreviventes se vê à deriva num bote salva-vidas na vastidão do Atlântico. No terceiro dia, quando o desespero começa a aumentar, um homem surge entre as ondas e é resgatado pelos náufragos. Misteriosamente, ele não tem um ferimento sequer.

Pri ZKP RTV Slovenija v sodelovanju z Radiem Slovenija - Programom Ars izdajamo zvoèno knjigo Mateta Dolenca: Pes z Atlantide, ki je bila leta 1994 nominirana tudi za Kresnikovo nagrado. Delo, ki ga pre ema temeljna ambivalentnost med kopnim in morjem, realnim svetom in Atlantido, èlovekovim brezdomstvom v moderni dru bi in njegovo intimnostjo, interpretira igralec Sebastian Cavazza, za re ijo pa je poskrbela Ana Krauthaker. Morje – tista prvinska snov, neskonèna sila, èude narave, je osrednje prizori èe v delih Mateta Dolenca (r. 1945).

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