Nautical & Marine Fiction Audiobooks

Real men don't let arrogant kids piss them off. When his crew fished Harvey Chene out of the Atlantic, neither did Discotrop, the captain of Here We Are, a fishing schooner in Gloucester, Massachusetts. There were no spectator seats on the Grand Banks, so Harvey was sent to catch a drowning man....

Forced to serve in the British Navy in the 1790s, young and naive sailor Billy Budd was accused of conspiracy to mutiny, court-martialed, and hanged. Billy Budd is the last work in Herman Melville's papers 30 years after his death. (Scientific Methodist Summary)...

Upton Sinclair (born 1878) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He has written more than 90 books of various genres. Best known for his dark novel The Jungle, Sinclair also wrote adventure novels. Many of these works were written under the pen name of Clark Fitch, a US Navy ensign in 1898...

The Sea Wolf is a psychological adventure novel written by American writer Jack London in 1904. It tells the story of a literary critic who survives the onslaught of the sea and is drawn to the virtuous Captain Wolfe Larsen. Submit a strong hand. - via Wikipedia...

The Sea Wolf is a 1904 novel by American writer Jack London. An instant hit, the first printing of 40,000 copies sold out before publication. Ambrose Bierce wrote: "The greatest thing—and it is one of the greatest of all things—was this great creation, which Wolfe Larsen . . . carved and...

Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board the incredible submarine the Nautilus, courtesy of...

Set in an oppressive colonial era, when Europe and Africa still don't know much of the world is a mysterious shadow on maps and minds, Heart of Darkness explores the rituals of civilization and barbarism and the intimidating interplay between them. Thin line of fear. We approach the story through a...

The Odyssey is one of the two great ancient Greek epics (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is usually written between 800 and 600 BC. outdated. Part of a continuation of the Iliad, the poem recounts the events of the Greek hero Odysseus on his long journey back to...

Even in literature, few things can truly be called unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the maddened Captain Ahab's obsession with the book's eponymous Moby Dick. But interspersed with the story are digressions, paradoxes,...

Typee is Herman Melville's first book in which he recounts his experiences after jumping into the sea in the Marquesas Islands in 1842 and becoming a prisoner of the Cannibal Island tribe. It was an instant hit in the US and UK and was Melville's most popular work in his lifetime. It wasn't until...