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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
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Include books by the same authorThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rudolf Erich Raspe · 140 pages
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
C.S. Forester · 258 pages
1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's Navy, Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a
John Carter: Barsoom Series
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1,164 pages
Jack Absolute
C.C. Humphreys · 330 pages
In 1777, Jack Absolute is famous - as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy 'The Rivals'. However, this notoriety comes as something of a shock to the real Jack Absolute when he disembarks at Portsmouth after four months at sea, and seven years in India.
The Gun Ketch
Dewey Lambdin · 400 pages
The Walking Drum
Louis L'Amour · 468 pages
Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russi
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages
KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound
The Sun Over Breda
Arturo Perez-Reverte · 275 pages
Diego Alatriste, a 17th-century mercenary and wily veteran of campaigns from Italy to Flanders, is part of the army of Spanish King Philip IVa defender of the Catholic faiththat's trying to suppress the Calvinist heretics of the Low Countries. Narrated is retrospect by igo Balboa, who at the time of the action was Alatriste's 14-year-old page, this installment focuses on the Spaniards' siege of th
The Barbary Pirates
William Dietrich · 336 pages
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee · 544 pages
Henry "Monty" Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval of his father haven't been able to curb any of his roguish passions--not for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men. But as Monty embarks on his Grand Tour of Europe, his qu
Mutiny On The Bounty
John Boyne · 495 pages
The story of the mutiny on the Bounty told from a fresh and original perspective.December 23, 1787, Portsmouth.A 14-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission. The boy who was expected
The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, a Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides
Ben Tripp · 303 pages
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III. In eighteenth-century England, Kit Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged
Conan (Book 1)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter · 221 pages
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Eli Brown · 336 pages
In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.
Ramage's Diamond
Dudley Pope · 297 pages
Quarterdeck
Julian Stockwin · 332 pages
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 555 pages
Three great swordsmen, Porthos, Aramis, and Anthos, with their protege, D'Artagnan, match wits with the sinister Cardinal Richelieu who seeks to divide the royalty in his own quest for power.
Pirate Freedom
Gene Wolfe · 320 pages
A young priest fresh out of seminary, Father Christopher finds himself inexplicably swept back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy, where he finds himself caught up in the life of a buccaneer and trolling the waters of the Caribbean in search of Spanish gold.
Fast Ships, Black Sails
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 241 pages
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, p
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
G.A. Henty · 278 pages
Riden's Chapter
Tricia Levenseller · 12 pages