Sea Stories

Seafaring, swashbuckling, suspenseful voyages you can experience from the safety of your armchair.

Fiction:

Meg: Hell's Aquarium,* Steve Alten

Map of All Things, Kevin J. Anderson

Hawke, Ted Bell

Jaws, Peter Benchley

Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch

Dangerous Ground, Larry Bond

Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel, Broos Campbell

Silver: My Own Tale as Written by Me With a Goodly Amount of Murder, Edward Chupack

Corsair: A Novel of the Oregon Files,* Clive Cussler

Surrender of a Siren, Tessa Dare

Gentleman Captain, J.D. Davies

The Pirates! In an Adventure With Napoleon,* Gideon Defoe

The Sea Runners, Ivan Doig

From the Depths, Gerry Doyle

Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island, John Drake

Deadly Shoals,* Joan Druett

Natural Selection, Dave Freedman

Voyage to Oblivion, Theodore Roosevelt Gardner II

Safe From the Sea, Peter Geye

Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh

Dreamboat, Judith Gould

Fisherman's Bend,* Linda Greenlaw

Swell, Iōanna Karystianē

In the King's Name, Alexander Kent

The Invasion Year: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure,* Dewey Lambdin

Danger Sector: The Windjammer Mystery Series,* Jenifer LeClair

Djibouti, Elmore Leonard

Courage: A Novel of the Sea, Alan Littell

Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas, Morgan Llywelyn

The Honored Dead: A Novel of Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S.N. in French Indochina, 1883, Robert N. Macomber

Annapolis, William Martin

The Western Limit of the World, David Masiel

Mad Kestrel, Misty Massey

Echo Class, David E. Meadows

Alejandro and the Fishermen of Tancay, Braulio Muñoz

Sea Change, Jeremy Page

Sail, James Patterson

Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea, Randall Peffer

Whispers of Winter, Tracie Peterson

The Weapon, David Poyer

The Ruling Sea, Robert V.S. Redick

Ghost Force, Patrick Robinson

Under Enemy Colors, S. Thomas Russell

A Battle Won, S. Thomas Russell

The Terror, Dan Simmons

Victory: A Kydd Sea Adventure,* Julian Stockwin

Red River, Peter Tonkin

The Extraordinary Journeys: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Sails on the Horizon: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars, Jay Worrall
*part of a series

Nonfiction:

Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season, Peter Nichols  338.37295 NIC

Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages, Dirk Meier  387.509 MEI

The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime, William Langewiesche  387.544 LAN

Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were, Donald S. Johnson  398.42 JOH

Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea, David Fisichella  551.46 FIS

River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away, Jeremy Wade  597.176 WAD

Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea, Linda Greenlaw  639.2778 GRE

The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster, Marc Songini          639.28 SON

Working The Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons From a Maine Lobsterman,
Wendell Seavey  639.54 SEA

Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella, David Shalleck  641.5 SHA

Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas, Abby Sunderland  797.1 SUN

The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea, Mary South    797.1092 SOU

True North: Journeys into the Great Northern Ocean, Myron Arms  797.124 ARM

A Splendid Madness: A Man, a Boat, a Love Story, Thomas Froncek  797.124 FRO

At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane, John Kretschmer  797.124 KRE

Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die: Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations,
Chris Santella  797.124 SAN

The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-Boats, Terry Mort  813.52 HEM

The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum, Geoffrey Wolff  910.41 WOL

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, Donovan Hohn  910.45 HOH

Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire, Jon Latimer  910.45 LAT

Seaworthy: Adrift With William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting, T.R. Pearson  910.45 PEA

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat, Chris Stewart  910.45 STE

Steady as She Goes: Women's Adventures at Sea, edited by Barbara Sjoholm  910.45082 STE

A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, Hobson Woodward  910.916348 WOO

Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World's Largest Ocean, Sharon Sites Adams  910.9164 ADA

Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack, Tom Nagorski  940.54293 NAG

A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II, Richard Snow   940.54293 SNO

Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World, Kieran Doherty  973.21 DOH

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, Lorri Glover  973.21 GLO

Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific, Geoffrey Blainey  B COOK

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