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Essere al comando di una nave, dare la caccia a brigantini nell'Adriatico, a tartane nel golfo del Leone, a sciabecchi e saettie lungo la costa spagnola, vivere in prima persona arrembaggi e duelli: questi sono gli orizzonti di Jack Aubrey, uomo di mare temerario e irruente, figlio orgoglioso di una nazione (l'Inghilterra del diciannovesimo secolo) simile a lui nell'inestinguibile sete di dominio che la pervade e nell'intima inquietudine che la tormenta.

An adventure story set in the Solomon Islands sees Jack and Toni, childhood schoolmates, set out on a routine boat trip to a neighbouring island, but things go awry when they discover, due to an oversight by Toni, that they do not have enough fuel to make the journey and are stranded at sea. At first they are optimistic that they will be rescued within hours, but as the first days draw to an end they slowly begin to realise that the mistake has left them in serious jeopardy and they can see no end but their own demise in sight.

Die Rungholt-Saga. 21 Kapitel kurzweilige Reiseberichte, die es niemals aufs Festland hätten schaffen dürfen. Wenn es nach den Rungholtern gegangen wäre. Haben Sie sich schon einmal überlegt, ob Rungholt, dieser sagenhafte Ort im nordfriesischen Wattenmeer, vielleicht in Wirklichkeit gar nicht untergegangen ist? Nein? Der Autor schon. Sie kennen ja das hässliche Gerücht über Bielefeld, dass es die Stadt nämlich eigentlich gar nicht gibt. Ein urbaner Mythos, längst enttarnt. Und wenn nun der Untergang von Rungholt 1362 auch nur so ein Mythos ist?

Ben Gannon and his girlfriend have sailed across the Pacific for a restful vacation before he reports to work at his next deep-sea diving job. But when they witness a freighter under attack from machine-gun-toting pirates, they find their lives in peril. Reporting the incident does no good, as the authorities find no trace of the ship in their registry. Soon Ben and Sasha are hunted by the dangerous men who seek the ship’s valuable cargo - a mysterious cache worth millions on the black market. Trouble is, the doomed freighter lies at the bottom of the ocean.

The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins. The new Captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law - nor even, as he has repeatedly remarked, a particular liking for boats - he solemnly swears to shake things up.

In Rick Campbell's next action-packed thriller Deep Strike, the U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine—funded by ISIS—en route to launch a missile attack against the east coast of the U.S. A shoulder-launched missile attack on a convoy of vehicles leaving the U.N...

November 1983: Three hundred feet beneath the Atlantic, submarine Lieutenant Bill Guth and his fellow officers suddenly receive the order they've long-dreaded - to launch their nuclear missiles in a retaliatory strike against the USSR. But in the unexpected chaos that follows, one person on board lies dead.... Norfolk, 2019: Bill Guth's annual family gathering is interrupted when a historian turns up unannounced to ask about the near-apocalyptic incident back in 1983. Bill refuses to answer. But that night, the historian is brutally murdered.

Dio creò i grandi mostri marini e tutti gli esseri viventi che guizzano e brulicano nelle acque, secondo la loro specie... Dio li benedisse: "Siate fecondi e moltiplicatevi e riempite le acque dei mari"... E fu sera e fu mattina: quinto giorno. GENESI 1, 21-23. 14 gennaio. Huanchaco, costa del Perú. Il povero pescatore Juan Narciso Ucañan non crede ai suoi occhi: dopo lunghe settimane di magra, davanti a lui si stende un enorme banco di pesci.

"Seefahrt ist not!", das ausdrucksstarke Epos über die See erschien 1913 und ist bis heute ein Meilenstein maritimer Literatur. Johann Kinau, 1880 als Sohn eines Fischers in Finkenwerder geboren, schrieb als "Gorch Fock" Erzählungen über die See und das Leben an Bord. Er selbst wurde zunächst Buchhalter. Im Krieg zu den Waffen gerufen, setzte er alles daran, in der Marine zu dienen. 1916 fiel er - erst 36-jährig - in der größten Seeschlacht der Geschichte, der Skagerrakschlacht. Gorch Focks Bücher werden bis heute gelesen.

The Iliad - attributed to Homer - is the most famous ancient Greek epic poem. It recounts the struggle between King Agamemnon and the hero Achilles during the final months of the Trojan War, with frequent detours into earlier legends and myths. In its portrayal of battle scenes and the constant interventions of the gods, The Iliad explores themes of wrath, glory, and fate, and has provided the subject matter for many later Greek, Roman, and Renaissance writings.

For four years at Annapolis he prepared for this, pledging his youth, his ambition, and even his life. But when junior officer Dan Lenson finally gets his commission, it's an aging World War II destroyer. Now, with a mix of pride and fear, he heads into the world's most dangerous seas. As the Ryan plunges into the dark waters of the Arctic Circle at the height of storm season, Lenson and the crew pursue a mysterious and menacing enemy. But he soon discovers a foe even more dangerous within the Ryan, advancing a shocking agenda that drives the ship ever closer to disaster.

With their longships storm-blown to the southern coast of Engla-land, Thorgrim Night Wolf and his men find themselves rich with plunder and safely ensconced in a priory called Christchurch. But that cannot last. Thorgrim, in a wolf dream, has seen the enemy armies closing in, and he knows that their peace will soon be at an end. The gods do not go so easy on him and his men. He has learned that through experience and hard use. Nor are the gods the only threat they face.  

Vid stranden i Whitstable lyckas endast de mest hängiva simma eftersom havet bara är djupt nog vid högvatten. Så när Deb, i sin slitna bikini och med solglasögonen på, titt som tätt stöter ihop med Maisie, med våtdräkt, simglasögon och simskor, utvecklas en oväntad vänskap baserad på deras kärlek till simningen, och att de båda två är nyskilda. Oavsett om det är dimma, regn eller strålande solsken simmar de tidig morgon och sen kväll.

Il comandante Kee, il migliore amico del padre di Corto Maltese, è sul ponte del suo vascello, il Dedalo. Con lui viaggiano il figlio Bertram e il giovane Corto, fraterni compagni. Salpato dalla Sicilia, il meltemi lo spinge lontano dalla sua destinazione, Venezia, e lo costringe a trovare approdo ad Anticitera, isola greca dell'Egeo. Qui una vecchia conoscenza coinvolge il comandante Kee in una nuova avventura. Esperto pescatore il greco ha visto sul fondale un'antica imbarcazione che cela inaspettate rivelazioni.

Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61 - carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines - steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold - alive. With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that brings the human drama of armed conflict compellingly to life.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Captain of the Pole-Star is a collection of mystery tales about amnesia, sea voyages, shipwrecks, lost love, and heists. It includes humorous stories and fairy tales.

Ci siamo. Ecco cosa capisce Carlo non appena riceve la telefonata di suo padre. Un pensiero immediato, che non lascia dubbi. Ci siamo. E infatti basta quella telefonata per spezzare in un attimo, in un breve scambio di battute, la regolarità della sua vita londinese, il lavoro allo studio di architettura, le sere e i fine settimana allegri con la moglie Francesca e i gemellini.

Frank returned to his world to find everything's wrong. Did the events of the past change the present, or is there something larger at work here? He sets off to retrieve the stolen stones from the time compass. Along the way, he'll learn new skills, new crafting, and find a new side to himself he never could've anticipated.

Charismatic expat Bobby Little built his own funky version of paradise on the remote island of Rum Cay, a place where ambitious sport fishermen docked their yachts for fine French cuisine and crowded the bar to boast of big blue marlin catches while Bobby refilled their cognac on the house. Larger than life, Bobby was really the main attraction: a visionary entrepreneur, expert archer, reef surfer, bush pilot, master chef, seductive conversationalist.

In this follow-up to 2018's Arrow's Flight, a tale of an 18th-century sunken ship and a fortune in gold sends Arrow and her crew on a venture that seems harmless enough - until it attracts the attention of the flamboyant owner of the Golden Dragon, a 240-foot sailing machine crewed by cashiered ex-marine Lord Barclay Summers and his band of mercenaries. When Arrow and her crew are viciously attacked, they seek shelter in the treacherous Great Sea Reef where they become ensnared in a life-and-death sailing match against the murderous crew of the Golden Dragon.