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  • Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life

    by Arthur E. Knights ...
    Knights describes his early experiences aboard merchant ships, navigating dangerous seas, encountering unpredictable weather, and the everyday realities of working in maritime environments. His anecdotes capture the physical demands of the job as well as the skills required to navigate through different parts of the world, from bustling ports to remote, exotic locations. Alongside these practical ... Read more

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  • Seafaring Sagas: A Compendium of 53 Fascinating Books

    A Book for the Hammock, Newton Forster, Under Drake's Flag, Afloat at Last, Off to Sea, etc.

    by T. T. Jeans, Ben Ames Williams, H. Bedford-Jones, Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Captain R. N. Edward Edwards, surgeon George Hamilton, William Caius Crutchley, Frank Thomas Bullen, Arthur E. Knights, Frederick Marryat, E. Keble Chatterton, G. A. Henty, R. M. Ballantyne, Richard Clynton, George Cupples, George Manville Fenn, Harry Collingwood, James Grant, John C. Hutcheson, Oliver Optic, Russell Doubleday, William Henry Giles Kingston, William Clark Russell, Elijah Kellogg, Percy F. Westerman, Molly Elliot Seawell, John Andrew Higginson, Stanley R. Matthews, Thomas Bingley, James Otis, Harry Castlemon ...
    Seafaring Sagas: A Compendium of 53 Fascinating Books offers an alluring and comprehensive exploration of sea narratives spanning the golden age of sailing adventures to gripping tales of maritime mystery. This anthology presents a kaleidoscope of literary styles, from enthralling adventure and thrilling courage to nuanced tales of human ambition and folly. By weaving together fantastical legends ... Read more

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  • Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life

    Enriched edition. A Sailor's Memoir of Sea Adventures and Ship Life

    by Arthur E. Knights, Aria Whitfield ...
    In "Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life," Arthur E. Knights captures the raw essence of maritime existence through a series of evocative vignettes that reflect on the trials and tribulations of life at sea. Knights employs a vivid, impressionistic style that blends lyrical prose with sharp observational detail, transporting readers into the heart of the nautical experience. His reflections are ... Read more

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  • Notes By The Way In A Sailor's Life

    by Arthur E. Knights ...
    Notes by the way in a sailor's life presents a reflective exploration of maritime existence through a series of interconnected recollections that illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological dimensions of life at sea. Drawing from varied episodes of travel and observation, the narrative offers a layered portrait of long voyages shaped by shifting climates, unpredictable waters, and the ... Read more

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  • Astounding Sea Stories

    Fifteen Ripping Good Tales

    Edited by Tom McCarthy ...
    Stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire.Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, or search for the Northwest Passage with Franklin’s doomed crew, or watch their mates being beheaded by angry pirates like Daniel Collins. But it’s quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Here are stoic and hardy ... Read more

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  • The Fortune of War

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 6 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary SupplementCaptain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Nutmeg of Consolation

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 14 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, PeopleShipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    “The best historical novels ever written.”—Richard Snow, New York Times Book ReviewPatrick O’Brian’s twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • 21

    The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

    by Patrick O'Brian, Richard Snow ...
    Series Book 21 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    The final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series in a beautiful new package.Patrick O’Brian’s Blue at the Mizzen—novel #20 in the widely celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series—ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: rear admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Sailing Alone around the World

    by Joshua Slocum ...
    The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Ocean Life in the Old Sailing-Ship Days

    by Captain John Whidden ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.Ocean Life in the Old Sailing-Ship Days is an account of a famous New England Sailor's adventures. ... Read more

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  • Square Rigger Days

    Autobiographies of Sail

    by Charles W. Domvillefife ...
    There are few books that describe accurately life on board sailing ships in the last days of sail, from the 1860s to the First World War; the romantic image conjured up by many who wrote from a safe distance belies the harsh realities which were a sailorman's lot. Domville-Fife, in collecting together the personal stories of seamen while they were still alive, was able to present a truer picture ... Read more

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