"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, an...
Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy...
R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.
Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part...
This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the events that fo...
Een avonturenroman vol mysteries - met zeerovers, struikrovers, schipbreuken, moord en doodslag - afgunst, wraak en rampspoed afgewisseld door humor e...
Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe's "Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe" is a detailed account of his experiences as a Dutch sea captain during his...
Coral Island is a classic adventure tale that follows three young castaways as they try to survive on a remote and dangerous island. The boys must lea...
The Odyssey is an epic poem by Homer, describing the ten-year journey of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, back to his homeland after the fall of Troy. Th...
Frozen Pirate is an adventure novel by William Clark Russell. The story follows the crew of a ship as they encounter a frozen pirate who has been susp...
Black Ivory is an adventure novel set in 19th-century East Africa, where the slave trade still flourishes. Two young men, shipwrecked on the coast, fi...
This collection of shorter stories by G. A. Henty takes readers on a thrilling adventure around the world. From encounters with Malay pirates to shipw...
Set against the backdrop of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 'Tiger of Mysore' follows young Dick Holland and his mother as they embark on a perilous journey to...
Fearsome Island, a tale purportedly based on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, a Hythe sailor, chronicles his shipwreck on an uncharted island. T...
The book is an account of the eight-year journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer who was shipwrecked in Florida in 1528. He and thre...
De Vliegende Hollander is een Nederlands boek dat de legende van het spookschip vertelt. Het boek verkent de geschiedenis van de legende, de mythen en...
Robinson Crusoë, a young Englishman, finds himself shipwrecked on a deserted island after a violent storm. Alone and stranded, he faces the challenges...
Three men, desperate and broke in Tahiti, seize a schooner whose officers have perished from smallpox. Their plan? To steal the vessel and its valuabl...
In the treacherous waters off the coast of Australia in the 1840s, the crew of the Betsy Ann encounters a mysterious shipwreck. The vessel appears ab...
The book "Naufragios" by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is a first-hand account of the author's experiences as a member of the ill-fated Narváez expeditio...
This collection of poems by Irving Sydney Dix was written in 1913 as a testament to his love and appreciation for the arts. It features a range of wor...
Boy Crusoe is a coming-of-age adventure novel that follows the story of a 15-year-old farm boy who runs away to sea. After his ship is wrecked, he fin...
Five Union prisoners escape from a Confederate prison in a hot-air balloon during the American Civil War, but crash-land on a remote island in the Pac...
This classic novel follows the intrepid Lord and Lady Glenarvan as they embark on a perilous journey across the globe to rescue the survivors of a shi...
