Nautical Books

Le capitaine Pamphile

Alexandre Dumas

Le capitaine Pamphile is the French origin of Captain Pamphile or The Adventures of Captain Pamphile is an 1839 French adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. It was aimed at children and had a strong ant..

As We Sweep Through The Deep

Gordon Stables

As We Sweep Through The Deep is a juvenile fiction story set in the nautical background written by William Gordon Stables. a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy...

Martin Of Nitendi and The River Of Dreams

Louis Becke

Martin Of Nitendi and The River Of Dreams is a collection of two nautical adventure fiction stories written by George Lewis Becke was an Australian Pacific trader, short-story writer and novelist..

Adrift in the Ice-Fields

Charles Winslow Hall

Adrift in the Ice-Fields is a castaways juvenile fiction story written by Charles Winslow Hall.To open to the youth of America a knowledge of some of the winter sports of our neighbors of the mar..

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of ..

White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the..

Turned Adrift

Harry Collingwood

Turned Adrift is a sea story written by Harry Collingwood ,who served in the navy and later as an engineer. He traveled extensively finding copious for his wonderful adventure stories.Excerpts:Th..

The End of the Tether

Joseph Conrad

The End of the Tether is a ship captains fiction story written by Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Excerpts:..