Títulos en Aventuras marinas

A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype­—Athena, Patrol Coastal 15­­—with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride.

Bombay, 1909. Genevieve Masefield and George Dillman make a living as detectives aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant ocean liners. From the members of first class in all their finery, to the card cheats and pickpockets plying their trade, they've experienced more than their share of humanity. For their latest voyage, the Salsette boasts a pair of travellers who feign ignorance of each other but there is clearly no love lost between them. Then there’s an elderly man whose powers of deduction may be based on more earthly techniques than the mystical energy he claims to possess.

This is the novel Typhoon. Written for you by Joseph Conrad, and read by Jim Edmark.

Genocide. Jellyfish smack. Unrequited love. This is a tale of thirteen mermaid sisters, the last of their kind.

Autumn, a mother-to-be, has an unsteady grip on the meaning of family. Her father abandoned her. She hasn’t seen her estranged mother in more than twelve years. And her marriage is crumbling. As Autumn struggles with painful memories of her childhood and fosters hopes for her own baby’s future, she must come to terms with the past to be the mother she and her child need her to be.

Egypt, 1908. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, used to the grand opulence of the Cunard cruise line, are at first disappointed with the Marmora, a small, unimpressive ship owned by the P&O shipping line. Employed by P&O to be the ship’s detectives, Dillman and Masefield expect to encounter the usual assortment of petty thieves and confidence tricksters. But this cruise is certain to be unique as the Duke and Duchess of Fife and their children are aboard and the detectives will provide security for the royals. And when a dead body turns up, the voyage proves to be one to remember.

Lola Sheridan is the youngest Sheridan sister: a whip-smart journalist with a flair for the dramatic. As her older sisters settle into new lives on the Vineyard, Lola demands more out of the summer season with a fantastical sailing expedition up from the Florida Keys to Martha’s Vineyard. The sailor who takes her? The mysterious, dark-eyed loner, Tommy Gasbarro—the ex-stepson of the Sheridan sisters’ greatest enemy. He represents so much of what went wrong in Lola’s life—and knows secrets about her mother that she was never allowed to learn.

1793 and Europe is ablaze with war. Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor.

Esta es una de las novelas más apasionantes de Vázquez-Figueroa. Ambientada en el mundo submarino, narra una historia sorprendente que, como han demostrado los acontecimientos, adquiere súbita vigencia hoy en día y se convierte en un nuevo vaticinio acertado de un autor que, como pocos, ha sabido prever el futuro en muchos de sus libros. En este caso se trata del turbio mundo de los traficantes de droga, quienes, acosados por las autoridades, se procuran medios cada vez más insólitos como la utilización de submarinos.

Una historia de amor por la naturaleza, contada por la voz de la ballena blanca protagonista. Una fábula para personas de todas las edades. De una concha que un niño recoge en una playa chilena, al sur, muy al sur del mundo, una voz se eleva, cargada de recuerdos y sabiduría. Es la voz de la ballena blanca, el animal mítico que durante décadas ha custodiado las aguas que separan la costa de una isla sagrada para las personas nativas de ese lugar, la Gente del Mar.

A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage. The challenge of a man against the wonders of nature's ocean, of a man against his own weakness and strengths, and of a man against a demon, or perhaps his God, as he searches for his nemesis, the great white whale.

Con este libro, Gabriel García Márquez se descubrió a sí mismo como un narrador. Sin embargo, la intención primera era escribir un reportaje sobre un hombre, Luis Alejandro Velasco, que estuvo diez días a la deriva en una balsa mecida por el mar Caribe. El futuro Nobel de Literatura y entonces joven reportero que era García Márquez escuchó el relato de los hechos de boca de su protagonista y los transformó, tal vez sin pretenderlo, en un prodigioso ejercicio literario, una narración escueta y vigorosa donde late el pulso de un gran escritor.

Nostromo is Conrad's masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. A profoundly dark moral fable set in the surroundings of a silver mine, it is a story of power, love, and revolution in the fictional South American country of Costaguana.

El polissó Ismael, un orfe que mai va arribar a conèixer al seu pare ni la seva mare, s'embarca en un viatge al costat de l'mariner Gunhar i el metge Enzo. Poc després cauen presoners d'Aben Yusuf, a la ciutat pirata de Tabarka, on descobreixen el SENTIT de la dignitat humana i la Força poderosa de l'amor.

El gran clásico de las novelas de aventuras náuticas. La vida del capitán Blood, inspirada directamente en la biografía de Henry Morgan, es un continuo proceso de búsqueda de la libertad, manteniéndose fiel a unos principios de igualdad, en una época en la que la piratería estaba legitimada y era tolerada por los gobiernos europeos.

Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society.

Coral Amherst is the middle child of a wealthy family, with fingers throughout the politics and laws of the magical Dalebloods and the Republic they lead. Skill and connections alike have propelled her to the highest ranks of the Republic’s Navy. Now, duty inexorably drags her into a mission to learn the fate of a long-lost magical city, once home to many of the people the Dalebloods rule. Storms of dark magic drove the Seablood from their ancient city and to the shores of the Republic—and those same storms now assail the Republic itself!

Los amotinados de La Bounty - El 28 de abril de 1789 hay un motín a bordo del velero inglés La Bounty, que navega hacia las Indias occidentales. El líder de los amotinados, Christian, lleva a cabo la rebelión alegando que la dureza y la desconsideración del capitán William Bligh son intolerables. De este modo, deciden abandonar al capitán y a sus partidarios en una chalupa provista con algunas provisiones.

"El Corsario Negro" es una novela de aventuras del escritor italiano Emilio Salgari. La acción se desarrolla en el mar Caribe durante el siglo XVII, en los años posteriores a 1686, época de esplendor de la piratería. Emilio de Roccanera, señor de Ventimiglia, más conocido como el Corsario Negro, ha jurado una terrible venganza por la muerte de sus hermanos (el Corsario Rojo y el Corsario Verde) a manos del gobernador de Maracaibo, el flamenco Van Guld. Y en su cruzada personal, el destino pone en su camino los ojos grises de una mujer de innegable belleza que será su perdición.

Una novela que mezcla mar y desierto, amor y muerte, aventura y pasión. Nos encontramos en 1689. El barco del marino León Bocanegra es hecho prisionero frente a las costas del Sáhara. Tanto él como sus hombres son apresados por los beduinos y vendidos como esclavos. Sin embargo, su aventura no ha hecho más que comenzar. Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa nos sumerge en uno de sus relatos más emocionantes, peligrosos y vivos en esta odisea por alcanzar la libertad.