Nautical & Marine Fiction
Moby Dick, or the Whale
Read by Stewart Wills
Herman Melville
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …
The Odyssey
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Homer
The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)
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Jules Verne
Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea b…
The Land that Time Forgot
Read by Ralph Snelson
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was…
The Sea Wolf
Read by Tom Crawford
Jack London
The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies…
Robinson Crusoe (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …
Captains Courageous
Read by Mark F. Smith
Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Glouce…
Heart of Darkness
Read by Kristin LeMoine
Joseph Conrad
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and m…
An Antarctic Mystery, or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields
Read by Esther
Jules Verne
Edgar Allan Poe's telling of Arthur Pym's narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len G…
Treasure Island (Version 4)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Read by Tom Crawford
Jack London
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Lord Thomas Cochrane
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…
In Search of the Castaways
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Jules Verne
The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself …
Stories of Ships and the Sea
Read by William Tomcho
Jack London
5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)
The U-boat Hunters
Read by William Tomcho
James Brendan Connolly
The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encoun…
The Atrocities of the Pirates
Read by James K. White
Aaron Smith
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…
Typee
Read by Michael Scherer
Herman Melville
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …
The Sea Hawk
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Rafael Sabatini
The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish …
The Riddle of the Sands
Read by Gesine
Erskine Childers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…