When God Laughs & Other Stories - Original Edition
by Jack London
Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize - Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award - "Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read." Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Born on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barroy's world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies....
Journal Your Life's Story (Creative Journals) (Blank Book Journals)
by Diary & Journal Press and Journal Your Life's Story
Two Years Before the Mast (American, #302) (Signet Books)
by Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years...
The King's Commission (The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures, #3)
by Dewey Lambdin
An epic adventure full of peril on the high seas.1782: Fresh from passing his Lieutenancy examination, Alan Lewrie is promoted to first officer aboard brig o'war Shrike.He is sent to the Caribbean, where the Royal Navy battles the French and Spanish. Despite his assignment, Lieutenant Lewrie just can't help himself, chasing the attentions of the young Lucy Beaumont.But when ordered to carry diplomats to Florida's Gulf Coast and form an alliance with the Creeks and Seminoles to resist the spread...
The Man In The Yellow Doublet (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste) (The Adventures of Captai)
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Captain Alatriste returns in a swashbuckling tale of intrigue, romance and regicide.Captain Alatriste's affair with the beautiful actress Maria de Castro is rankling not only his long-term mistress but also the King of Spain. With loyal companion Inigo distracted by the affections of Angelica, Alatriste becomes embroiled in a series of tussles outside his lover's house. Ambushed by arch-nemesis Malatesta, a skirmish ensues that leads to the death of Maria's other lover - the monarch himself. But...
Second to None (Richard Bolitho) (Bolitho Novels)
by Alexander Kent
A historical sea story featuring Captain Adam Bolitho who, still grieving for his uncle, Sir Richard, is given command of the newly commissioned frigate 'Unrivalled' and ordered to the Mediterranean, where every landfall will remind him and those close to him of what he and England have lost. From the author of SWORD OF HONOUR and THE ONLY VICTOR.