Títulos em Aventuras Marítimas

Racconto pubblicato nel 1833 è la storia di un naufrago che affida alle onde gli ultimi momenti della sua vita.

Genevieve hates cruises, but Peter, her husband, has bought this one for her after the worst year of her life, and she couldn’t tell him she didn’t want to go. Still traumatized after a family tragedy, both of them have gone into hiding behind small talk and silence. A cruise is the last place where Genevieve could imagine making a friend, but when she meets Thomas, a morbidly obese man, she finds him easy to talk to. Thomas himself has a past—one which has poisoned the only relationship he cared about. By the end of the cruise, all of their lives will have changed.

2082: The United States stagnates while Communist China is on the rise. Eccentric billionaire Grace Jaden thought she had her hands full with her Renewable Energy company facing nationalization, but when a humanitarian effort goes awry, she ends up a wanted criminal. She and her team flee to the high seas of the Pacific, only to find themselves in the midst of global geopolitical, economic, and military conflict. Will the ocean bring freedom or death?

Fünf beruflich erfolgreiche Männer sitzen beisammen. Auch wenn sie in verschiedenen Professionen ihr Geld gemacht haben, ist ihnen doch eines gemeinsam: Ihre Erfahrung auf See. Einer von ihnen, Marlow, erzählt, wie er sein erstes Kommando als zweiter Offizier auf einem Kohlenfrachter nach Bangkok erhielt. Von Anfang an steht die Reise unter keinem guten Stern; zahlreiche Zwischenfälle verhindern das Auslaufen. Endlich auf hoher See, wird bald ein merkwürdiger Geruch spürbar – und eine Rauchfahne, die aus dem Kohlenbunker aufsteigt. Bald brennt die Ladung lichterloh – und Marlow erlebt das größte Abenteuer seiner Jugend.

In this historical fiction, we follow our main character, Mike Allen, throughout his journey of modern exploration on the Queen Mary. Mike quickly makes the company of a young concierge named Katharina, who he avails on his journey. The two are deadest for a flash in the pan romp on the Queen Mary, but soon find out that they both might have gotten more than they bargained for.

Kin Findlay and five other young voyagers are washed ashore on a strange island after suffering a devastating shipwreck. All the crew and everyone aboard the ship have sunk to the floor of the ocean. It is a miracle that Kin and his friends survived this disaster. Luckily, they washed up on the same island they were headed to. Their hunt for treasure becomes a struggle for survival when they realize that they are not alone on the island. Kin, who is still battling a severe case of amnesia, will have to rely on his wits and the intelligence of his friends to be able to find a way out.

On the brink begins in the present day, US Navy Commander Derek “Leopard” Lloyd, a former Navy SEAL, is now the senior medical officer of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, steaming in the Western Pacific, and he soon finds himself at the center of escalating events as nations maneuver for control of resources in the South China Sea. These events have Lloyd grappling with personal demons from long ago, while at the same time, a beautiful naval flight officer from his past arrives to be the admiral’s new chief of staff.

Every pirate in the Caribbean is searching for The Holy Grail—a ship carrying the treasury of Hanover and the countess Aurora of Calenberg, suspected of orchestrating the theft. Prinz Maximilian will stop at nothing to catch her and regain the fortune, even if it means following her into the deepest, darkest recesses of Samaná Bay. With pirates and cutthroats at every turn, will she be reunited with her handmaiden, Helena, and her portrait painter, Dodo?

Pirates. They are a group of lawless individuals that are considered as thorns of the seas. However, within them, a rose is hidden in plain sight, but as the circumstances and positions change like a tactical game of chess, will her disguise as a man work? Or will she need to bloom courageously to her full potential to survive? Join the crew as they journey toward the unknown with a hint of magic, gold, and unknown mysterious creatures. But beware, the night rose leaves a trail of blood and chaos behind wherever they go. So...are you in?

Roused from its slumber following an Antarctic ice quake, an immense beast has risen from the depths. Dwarfing even the mighty blue whale, the gargantuan wonder of evolution takes charge of the oceans, setting a catastrophic chain of events in motion. Henry Rainwater is a rookie crab fisherman trying to make his own way in life. After surviving an encounter with the beast that sees his father and the rest of the crew of their family boat killed, Rainwater becomes a recluse, deathly afraid of the creature that lurks in the ocean.

This action- and suspense-packed novel by John Winn Miller introduces Captain Jake Rogers, a hardened smuggler transporting contraband through the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic in the beginning phases of World War II. He takes on cargo few other captains would be willing to carry—if the price is right. But after witnessing the oppression of Jews in Amsterdam, Rogers agrees to take on the most dangerous cargo he has ever transported.

When the dastardly Baron Dorchester kidnaps Little Bo Peep from a costume ball and carries her onto a ship bound for France, the captain of the Molly, Blake Russell, must take on the guise of a pirate to rescue his booty in this delightful tale of a chase on the Channel. Can a tumble on the Thames be far behind?

The Greenland Shark tells the story of Murphy and Kavanagh, the only crew on the Skalugsuak as they sail the Baltic sea. Kavanagh senses Murphy is concealing a dark past, but then he has his own secrets he is reluctant to share. Life is hard on a boat that forever stinks of urine, but when they spot the legendary Greenland Shark, both men’s secrets begin to unravel.

This rousing sea adventure follows New England boy Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain’s son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov.

The steamship Nan-Shan, en route through the China seas to the port of Fu-chau during the season of tropical storms, with 200 returning Chinese workers aboard, encounters an ominous fall in the barometer. Phlegmatic and unimaginative Captain MacWhirr, unable to comprehend the awesome natural forces ahead of him, refuses to alter his course, pitting his ship and his own indomitable will against the fury of the storm.

A shipwrecked mariner learns of his home’s destruction. Carlo Sarfe embarks on a voyage that will take him not only through strange realms but back in time to save his family before the ruin of their land. The lost continent once called Gol.

El pescador cuenta sus aventuras –extrañas aventuras– y le da una vuelta de tuerca a cada anécdota. Por momentos el pescador filosofa, pero nunca se detiene ni se pone solemne. En cambio busca moverse al ras de lo que recuerda, y siempre está listo para retomar el hilo. El pescador salta de un tiempo a otro. Salta entre los tiempos de su vida, salta entre los tiempos de la historia.

Humphrey Van Weyden is a smart, domesticated man. He enjoys reading and critiquing literature in his free time. So when he finds himself a survivor of a ferryboat accident and at the complete mercy of a tyrannical schooner captain, his life is turned upside down. Exploring themes of ambition, courage, and survival, this 1904 classic adventure novel features an antagonist based on a sailor Jack London once knew.

Don’t go in the water. It’s dark. It’s deep. It’s scary as hell. There is no better keeper of secrets than the menacing, murky depths of the ocean. Unfathomable creatures, mysterious disappearances, abandoned ships, deadly pirates. Even experienced seamen are susceptible to the horrors that lay hidden far below the surface. It’s all a game of chance. Be in the wrong place at the wrong time and you’ll become something’s meal. The dark deep is ominous and unforgiving and it has no conscience.

David Rudolph and Jacky Baker are the best commercial fishermen around the Oregon coast. The two men sign aboard a fishing vessel, the Edmund Fitzgerald II. With a crew of 10, the ship sails through radioactive waters in the Pacific carried by currents from the Fukushima nuclear accident. Using the latest and most sensitive Geiger counters for underwater use, the captain is determined that his catch will be safe for human consumption. After a day full of good catches, however, the ship and crew encounter something they didn't expect. Something in the water. Something big.