Nautical Books

Dick Sands, the Boy Captain

Jules Verne

Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Several adaptations..

Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef

James Fenimore Cooper

Jack Tier or The Florida Reef is a historical fiction novel written by James Fenimore Cooper, the author Of “The Pilot,” “Red Rover,” “Two Admirals,” “Wing And Wing,” “Miles Wallingford,” Etc.This wor..

Lost in the Fog

James De Mille

It was a beautiful morning, in the month of July, when a crowd of boys assembled on the wharf of Grand Pre. The tide was high, the turbid waters of Mud Creek flowed around, a fresh breeze blew, and if..

Sky Island

L. Frank Baum

Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in..

The Gates of Morning

H. De Vere Stacpoole

Some day they would come. The vision of Palm Tree seemed to repeat what instinct told him. They would build canoes and seeing the lagoon mirror-light in the sky, they would come. They had no women, th..