Merchant ships and trading voyages

10 books

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the SeaMorgan Robertson · 1899An 1899 collection of sea stories by Morgan Robertson, including the title tale about a merchant ship signed with an unusual crew of well-dressed young sailors and a vengeful shipping-master.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Little Bobtail; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot.Oliver Optic · 1872Little Bobtail; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot, by Oliver Optic (1872), is the first volume of the Yacht Club Series, an independent adventure novel for young readers set on Penobscot Bay, following its hero through yachting experiences and a shipwreck.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Lord JimJoseph Conrad · 1900A 1900 novel by Joseph Conrad about Jim, a young English seaman haunted by a disgraceful act at sea who wanders from port to port in the East under an assumed name, telling his story largely through the narrator Marlow.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant NavyHerman Melville · 1849A novel by Herman Melville, published in 1849, telling the first-person story of young Wellingborough Redburn, a poor boy who goes to sea as a sailor on a merchant ship, recounting his hardships and adventures aboard and during a voyage to Liverpool.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Ebb-Tide: A Trio And QuartetteRobert Louis Stevenson · 1894An 1894 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about three destitute, down-and-out English-speaking men stranded on the beach in Papeete, Tahiti, who become acquainted through shared misery and unknown to one another use assumed names.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Frozen PirateWilliam Clark Russell · 1887An 1887 sea adventure novel by William Clark Russell, told by Paul Rodney, mate of the brig Laughing Mary, which survives a violent hurricane near Cape Horn and drifts into icy waters where the narrator discovers a frozen schooner.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.Edgar Allan Poe · 1838A sea adventure novel by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1838, presented as the autobiographical account of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It describes a mutiny aboard the brig Grampus, shipwreck, starvation, and a voyage toward the Antarctic.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The WreckerRobert Louis Stevenson · 1892An 1892 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, written with Lloyd Osbourne, following Loudon Dodd, an American sculptor turned businessman, whose voyages in the South Seas aboard a mysteriously insured schooner hint at secrets of shipping and salvage.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.Anonymous · 1880An 1880 collection of dramatic sea tales, likely compiled anonymously, recounting shipwrecks, mutinies, piracy, and disasters at sea from the late eighteenth century onward, with stories of both escapes and fatal outcomes.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Work and Win; Or, Noddy Newman on a CruiseOliver Optic · 1867A juvenile novel published in 1867, the fourth of the Woodville Stories, following Noddy Newman, a wayward orphan boy at Woodville, as he works toward moral improvement and sets out on a ocean cruise aboard the schooner Roebuck.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية