Nautical & Marine Fiction

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by William Clark Russell Read by Lee Smalley 4.6
This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his …

Ran Away to Sea

by Thomas Mayne Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.7
Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the…

Typhoon

by Joseph Conrad Read by Anthony Ogus 4.4
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…

Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea

by Thomas Bingley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Ten accounts of events from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when life at sea was a perilous venture. The book is presented as a seri…

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates invites listeners into a world of adventure on the high seas, where legendary pirates and buccaneers roam the …

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

by Frank R. Stockton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rollicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of …

The Submarine Boys and the Middies

by Victor G. Durham and Frank Gee Patchin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Pollard is about to be taken to Anapolis, where the United States Navy will train their midshipmen how to run the submarine. Jack, Hal …

The Ghost Ship

by John C. Hutcheson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work o…

The Frozen Pirate

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

An Outcast Of The Islands

by Joseph Conrad Read by Tom Weiss 3.9
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…

The Sea Wolf

by Jack London Read by Tom Crawford 4.4
The Sea Wolf is a gripping tale of survival and transformation set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. When literary crit…

The Fearsome Island

by Albert Kinross Read by Ruth Golding 4.3
No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipw…

Wreck of the London

by Unknown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Maritime life in the nineteenth century was as perilous as it was necessary. Whether voyages were military, exploratory or mercantile, or f…

Toilers of the Sea

by Victor Hugo Read by John Greenman 4.1
The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island communit…

The Frozen Deep

by Wilkie Collins Read by Diana Majlinger 4.2
The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and…

The Trawler

by James Brendan Connolly Read by Roger Melin 4.6
The Trawler is a short story revolving around the trying life of a group of bank fishermen based in Gloucester. Skipper Hugh Glynn worked hi…

The Island of Appledore

by Cornelia Meigs Read by Roger Melin 4.1
Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it…

The Wreck of the Corsaire

by William Clark Russell Read by Steven Seitel 4.2
This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby climbs into the rigging of the Ruby in search of cooler air, he is struck …

The After House

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Tom Penn 4.3
Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, b…

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