Sea stories
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Unknown Shore
$26.99 Add to cartPatrick O’Brian’s first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson’s fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O’Brian returns to th
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 039331538X
- Language: English
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The Sea Runners
$15.99 Add to cartBased on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig’s The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
“Goes beyond being ‘about’ survival and becomes, … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031027
- Language: English
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All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartThree years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, All Aunt Hagar’s Children. In the
- Author: Jones, Edward P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0060557575
- Language: English
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Hornblower During the Crisis
$17.99 Add to cartThe final, unfinished volume in C. S. Forester’s beloved Hornblower saga sees the indomitable naval hero engage in espionage to thwart Napoleon’s forces ahead of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Although un- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #04
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 18 1990
- ISBN10: 0316289442
- Language: English
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Sea Dog
$18.95 Add to cartWalter longs to be a sea dog. He comes from a long line of seafaring dogs, all of whom made their livelihoods from the sea, but, alas, Walter’s talent seems to extend only to baking. He sells his brea
- Author: Sheckels, Astrid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1684750598
- Language: English
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Old Man and the Sea
$22.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
Told in his famed powerful and minimalist prose, this story of courage and personal triumph remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. The Old Man and the Sea i- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830493
- Language: English
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The Sinister Secrets of Singe
$18.99 Read moreThe Wild Robot meets Sweet Tooth in the first book in a sweeping adventure series packed with robots, smugglers, battles, and a lonely boy trying to find where he fits in the world.
Eleven-year-old No- Series: The Sinister Secrets
- Author: Ferrell, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1645951839
- Language: English
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Suddenly
$18.00 Add to cartIn a gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives
A young couple from Paris sets out on th- Author: Autissier, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137425
- Language: English
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Jaws
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The shark-versus-man classic that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie
“A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror.”–The Washington Post A great white shar- Series: Jaws
- Author: Benchley, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 1400064562
- Language: English
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Post Captain
$15.95 Add to cartIt’s 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in t
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #2
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541592
- Language: English
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Sea Prayer
$15.00 Add to cartAn illustrated book on the refugee crisis that will break your heart in under 48 pages, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountain… [more below]
- Author: Hosseini, Khaled
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 18, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525539093
- Language: English
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Ocean: A Peek-Through Picture Book
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling series that began with Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book comes an elaborate and beautiful children’s book with peek-through holes that show the amazing life in the world’s oceans.… [more below]
- Author: Teckentrup, Britta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0525647201
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
$5.95 Add to cartIn this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
Heart of Darkness is- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05, 2008
- ISBN10: 0451531035
- Language: English
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Treasure Island
$10.00 Add to cartThe quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination
When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumb- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437681
- Language: English
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Moby Dick
$5.95 Add to cartHerman Melville’s thrilling nautical adventure–a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.
At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea–and Captain Ahab,- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 2, 2013
- ISBN10: 0451532287
- Language: English
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Pod
$26.95 Add to cart*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION*
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean–and into the world of its fascinating inhabitants–through th- Author: Paull, Laline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363718
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Homer
$18.99 Add to cartHomer’s great epic The Odyssey–one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works–translated by Richmond Lattimore
A classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lattimore, Richmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: 26-Jun-07
- ISBN10: 006124418X
- Language: English
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The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition
$17.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s most beloved and popular novel ever, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now featuring a previously unpublished short story and additional supplementary material–plus a personal foreword
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1476787859
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
$32.00 Add to cartPart of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile clo… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0141199601
- Language: English
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The Moorings of Mackerel Sky
$24.99 Read moreDebut novelist MZ marries fantasy with the everyday in her contemporary novel of a Maine lobstering town whose local myths come to life.
“Arresting, lyrical, and deeply emotional, MZ’s debut will capt- Author: Mz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 136809726X
- Language: English
