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For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown, and for escape from the mundane. We have always had a primal relationship with the sea - even those who have never been to sea remain fascinated by the seafaring life and tales of salty adventure. Now in a brand–new series collection, The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together such diverse authors as Charles Dickens, Jack London, John Masefield, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, and dozens more.

Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a small fishing boat. After being punched in the nose by the captain of the vessel for smart-mouthing him, Harvey quickly learns respect, toughness, and gratitude. He steps up from self-centeredness into the difficult but fulfilling realm of self-reliance and unselfishness.

Insurance investigator Brent Calloway may be too hard-boiled to crack a smile, but he’ll go to any length to crack a case. Calloway’s about to go to extremes to see to it that one ship makes it safely from Hawaii to the mainland. Going undercover and posing as ruthless killer Spike O’Brien Calloway quickly discovers that on this ship nothing is what it seems, and no one can be trusted. With so much insurance money at stake, and the whole crew apparently in on the scam, this could end up being a voyage to the bottom of the sea....

Isabella hat den Männern abgeschworen. Nachdem ihr Freund sie verlassen hat, flieht sie förmlich nach Mallorca. Hier will sie nichts als ausspannen und vergessen. Doch kaum hat sie einen Fuß ins Hotel gesetzt, fühlt sie sich verfolgt. Ist Axel ihr hinterhergereist? Nach einer einsamen Wanderung taucht ein Fremder auf - der sie auf die Spuren von Chopin und George Sand führt. Isabella ist drauf und dran, sich wieder zu verlieben... Bis sie erkennt, dass der Fremde offenbar ein Geheimnis hat.

La linea d'ombra, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1917, è un romanzo che riflette profondamente le esperienze e le riflessioni del suo autore...

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man's heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation.

Bea Abbot and her husband have been running a highly successful domestic agency for many years, but when he falls ill and dies, she is pressured by her MP son and novelist daughter to retire. Bea is so tired from the long years of nursing her husband that all she wants is peace and quiet, and to have her pretty early Victorian house in Kensington, London, all to herself. What she gets is a couple of young lodgers with troubled backgrounds and an old friend banging on her door, asking for help.

Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That’s more than enough to turn Shanghai newspaperman Jimmy Vance’s head. Throw in the gorgeous dame who’s offering the reward - Rockham’s daughter Virginia - and he might lose his head altogether. Fast-talking Vance jumps at the chance...the money...and the girl. But as Jimmy quickly discovers, there are several billion reasons to watch his back. Because that’s how much Rockham is worth.

If Lars Marlin had three wishes, two have already been granted: he has escaped from Devil’s Island . . . and he has come face to face with the man who put him there - Paco Corvino. But the third wish - putting a bullet in Corvino - will have to wait. They’re off to sea, and not since Fletcher Christian and Captain Bligh set sail on the Bounty have two more heated enemies been in the same boat.

Wrongfully accused, Spar has been condemned to suffer the brutality of the guards and the conditions on Devil’s Island. But they haven’t broken his will, and now, escaping, he has one mission in life: revenge. Spar’s out to kill the man who put him into the devil’s hands. But he’ll have to take on a gallery of rogues who are as treacherous as the waters of the Caribbean.

Moby Dick dello scrittore americano Herman Melville è oggi considerato uno dei più importanti libri della letteratura mondiale...

In an attempt to reclaim his stolen oil fields, Bob Sherman secretly hires on as a deckhand aboard the yacht of Herbert Marmion, the man who ruthlessly stole them. When a hurricane sends the yacht to an uncharted island, the entire crew is captured by pirates—including Marmion’s beautiful daughter.

Tom Christian is on the trail of revenge and a fortune in gold. Square-jawed and rugged, Tom is headed deep into the jungles of the Solomon Islands to find Punjo Charlie—the ruthless criminal who killed his partner. But these jungles are thick with danger ... as greed, temptation and sudden violence threaten to draw Tom into the heart of darkness. There’s a pile of gold.... There’s a beautiful blonde.... And there’s a bloodthirsty tribe of headhunters who have fallen under the spell of Punjo Charlie. The trap has been set.

Lo scenario delle anse del fiume Ticino, un vecchio pescatore chiamato "il Nebbia", una piena come da anni non si vedeva. Barcaiolo esperto come nessun altro, “Il Nebbia” sa condurre il suo "barcé" nelle rapide delle piene più vigorose. Sembra che nulla possa sfuggirgli di ciò che avviene sul fiume. Ma dovrà ricredersi, anche per chi sul fiume c'è nato e lo ha navigato fin da bambino c'è qualcosa di misterioso, che sfugge all'umana conoscenza.

Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott is as smart, tough, and fearless as they come. But he’s about to lose everything - his boat, his freedom, and his identity. Johnny’s mission is to track down drug runners in the Gulf of Mexico, and he’s got his eye on the biggest fish of all - Georges Coquelin. But an SOS from a downed plane that’s sinking fast leads him straight to disaster. Coquelin springs a trap. Stranding Johnny and the plane’s passengers on a deserted island, the drug smuggler commandeers Johnny’s boat and his name.

The Caribbean is a fortune hunter’s dream, salted with the gold of galleons long ago claimed by the deep. Now Hawk’s headed for the Windward Passage of Haiti to stake his claim. But a rival team has also picked up the scent, and they’re willing to turn the sea red with blood to get to the gold first.

"Dzhon Jachmennoe Zerno" (povest') - avtobiograficheskaja povest' Dzheka Londona, rasskazyvajushhaja o zhizni pisatelja svjazannoj s vypivkoj. Povest' byla opublikovana v 1913 godu. Nazvanie vzjato iz britanskoj narodnoj pesni Dzhon Jachmennoe Zerno. Istorija o tom kak chelovek stanovit'sja alkogolikom, ego oshhushhenija i videnija, bor'ba s tjazhelym nedugom - vse jeto opisano krasochno, jarko, i v tozhe vremja strashno.

After 28 years of playing by the rules, Jessica Gregory moves from her small Indiana town to Phuket, Thailand. But her newfound routine is upended with the arrival of Grant Flynn, a captivating, elusive man who is sailing around the world while trying to move on from a past tragedy. Jessica volunteers to help crew Grant's boat, Imagine, on a passage across the Indian Ocean and finds herself falling in love with him as the voyage gets underway.

Romanzo pubblicato nel 1867 e dedicato a tutti gli amanti delle avventure e delle esplorazioni geografiche. Seguendo alcune indicazioni di una richiesta di aiuto, trovata in una bottiglia, un gruppo di coraggiosi si pone in cerca del capitano Harry Grant, andando n cerca di mirabolanti avventure, che hanno come sfondo la Patagonia, l’Australia, e i feroci cannibali Maori della Nuova Zelanda, fino all’immancabile e sfolgorante lieto fine. Grandi descrizioni geografiche, il libro è avvincente e istruttivo. Adatto a tutti.

Lill surfe depuis qu'il sait marcher. Il adore Malibu, cette vie entre le sable et l'eau ; son père et ses amis, la tranquillité de son quotidien. Tout pourrait être parfait, sans remous et sans houle, si Lara, sa grande sœur, n'avait pas débarqué de New York quelques années plus tôt. Si elle n'était pas comme un rappel constant que Diane, leur mère, n'a jamais voulu de lui. Quand il regarde Lara, Lill a l'impression de ne pas être "assez"... Un sentiment qui le hante depuis son plus jeune âge.