Nautical & Marine Fiction

A Marriage at Sea

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Herbert Barclay is desperately in love with Grace Bellassys, but a number of factors stand in the way of their happiness, the biggest of whi…

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…

The Young Ice Whalers

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…

The Beach of Dreams

by H. De Vere Stacpoole Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow h…

The Sailor's Word-book

by William Henry Smyth Read by czandra 4.9
An encyclopaedia (a digest, the author calls it) of nautical terms and other words relevant to navigation, the character of seafarers, fish …

Atlantis

by Gerhart Hauptmann Read by Margaret Espaillat 4
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…

The Sea-Witch

by Maturin Murray Ballou Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Sea-Witch by Maturin Murray Ballou invites listeners into a world of adventure and romance on the high seas. This nautical tale follows …

Swiss Family Robinson

by Lucy Aikin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer…

Moonraker

by F. Tennyson Jesse Read by Anne Erickson 4
Young Jackie runs away to sea and before long his ship is captured by pirates. Now sailing with the Moonraker and its captain, Jacky reaches…

The Pirate, and The Three Cutters

by Frederick Marryat Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.9
Pirates are the subject of many a dime novel and boys' stories, but they tend to be portrayed as one-dimensional. Such is the case here. The…

My Danish Sweetheart

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Volume 3 continues the story of Hugh Tregarthen and Helga Nielsen as they embark on a tumultuous sea journey aboard the ship Light of the Wo…

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced tha…

The Skipper's Wooing

by W. W. Jacobs Read by Alan Lord 3.9
The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

Ballad of the Tempest

by James Thomas Fields Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Ballad of the Tempest by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 4t…

The Captain's Story

by William Martin and William S. Martin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
This seafaring adventure story was adapted from the German. It is also known as The Disobedient Son and tells the story of a boy who runs aw…

The Last Buccaneer

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for …

Clearing Weather

by Cornelia Meigs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"It is not the money. It is the ships. I must build ships. But no one wants them now." Cornelia Meigs captures the excitement of …

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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…

Poison Island

by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary bec…

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