Sea Stories Books

Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer James Fenimore Cooper's engrossing biography of Ned Myers, a sailor and Cooper's companion at sea. The authentic details shed light not only on Myer's life but also on the po..

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..

A Modern Telemachus

Charlotte M. Yonge

The idea of this tale was taken from The Mariners’ Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early in the last century—a curious book of narratives of maritime adventures, with exceedingly quaint il..

The Golden Harpoon

Roger Starbuck

In the midst of the uproar stood Alice Howard, watching with dilating eyes and blushing cheeks the movements of Harry Marline, who belonged to the mate’s boat, and who, more than once, while arranging..

The Adventures of an Eton Boy

James Grant

One of the leading features in the fisher-village of Erlesmere is a little public house, at the ivy-covered porch of which a group of burly weather-beaten fellows in long boots, striped shirts, and re..

The Pinafore Picture Book

W. S. Gilbert

When we get a National Theatre, at which all the best plays will be produced at the expense of the Public (who will also enjoy the privilege of paying to see the Plays after they have defrayed the cos..

List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident

William Clark Russell

Sailors visit many fine countries; but there is none—not the very finest—that delights them more than the coast of their own native land when they sight it after a long voyage. The ship was the R..

Honor of Thieves - A Novel

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders. “Not he. But you know what Mrs. Shelf is when she gets any show person at one of her functions. The poor man had to stand it for a while, because she held on to him..