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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson · 503 pages
Med en stor portion humor och en berättarglädje som knappast har något motstycke i den svenska litteraturen är Röde Orm en av våra få verkligt levande klassiker som har fängslat generationer av läsare. Orms äventyr börjar när han som yngling av en slump hamnar på ett vikingaskepp. Hans fortsatta öden berättas i dråpliga episoder om hans tid som galärslav och livvakt hos kalifens visir Almansur
The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes · 247 pages
A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.
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
Ballad of the Salt Sea: A Corto Maltese adventure
Hugo Pratt · 169 pages
Captain Hornblower R.N.: Hornblower and the Atropos / The Happy Return / A Ship of the Line
C.S. Forester · 638 pages
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
G.A. Henty · 355 pages
The struggle between Great Britain and Spain for supremacy of the high seas, as seen through the eyes of a sixteenth-century teenager, Ned Hearne. Along with three friends, young Ned is swept up in one adventure after another as he accompanies the daring English mariner Francis Drake on amazing voyages of discovery across the Pacific. An eyewitness to the great naval battle between the English fle
The Golden Ocean
Patrick O'Brian · 288 pages
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini · 283 pages
H.M.S. Cockerel
Dewey Lambdin · 382 pages
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne · 493 pages
"At a time when Verne is making a comeback in the U.S. as a mainstream literary figure, Wesleyan is pleased to publish a new translation of one of his best-known novels, The Mysterious Island. Although several editions under the same title are in print, most reproduce a bowdlerized 19th-century translation which changes the names of the characters, omits several important scenes, and ideologically
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.
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 Bounty Trilogy
Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall · 356 pages
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Arthur Conan Doyle · 387 pages
"Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned his attention to a very different hero. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army - recklessly brave, engagingly open-hearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. Conan Doyle's wonderful stories about the Brigadier - all of which are collected here - are as funny as they
The Barbary Pirates
William Dietrich · 336 pages
Tai-Pan
James Clavell · 601 pages
"It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler-- Tai-Pan!"--P. [4] of cover.
The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the South China Sea
L.A. Meyer
Jacky Faber, soldier, sailor, spy, and sometime pirate, condemned for life to the English prison colony in Australia for high crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of British authorities. Back on her flagship, the *Lorelei Lee*, she happily heads back to England in the company of dear friends and her beloved Jaimy Fletcher. However, due to a typhoon, an earthquake,
The Privateersman
Andrew Wareham · 208 pages
Ramage & the Freebooters
Dudley Pope · 352 pages
Quarterdeck
Julian Stockwin · 332 pages
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.
The Tapestry of Fate
S.A. Chakraborty · 487 pages
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi · 235 pages
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.