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Typee
At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" world of the nineteenth century.
But Melville's story of Tommo, the Yankee sailor who enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva, is also a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account…
Gemeinsame Themen: Sailors, Sea Stories, Description and travel, Drama
Der Seewolf
Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing - and it is among the greatest of things - is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen...the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is black for a man to do in one lifetime." The Sea Wolf tells the story of intellectual Humphrey van Weyden's toughening and growth in the…
Gemeinsame Themen: Sailors, Sea Stories
Das Verschwinden der Astrid Bricard
Three generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history? French countryside, Present Day: Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dreams, years ago. Fate, however, has a different plan, and Blythe will discover there is more to…
Gemeinsame Themen: English literature, Romance
Den Atem rauben
One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most people assumed Andy had got away with murder, but the police couldn’t build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom – he drank too much, was abandoned by his friends, nearly lost his business and became a pariah in the place he had once called home.
Now, six years later,…
Gemeinsame Themen: English literature, Mystery
Das leere Haus und andere Geistergeschichten
Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951).
Gemeinsame Themen: English literature, Short Stories
Süd: Die Geschichte von Shackletons Expedition 1914-1917
"One of the most harrowing survival stories of all time"—Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect StormVeteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own first-hand account of this epic adventure.As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to…
Gemeinsame Themen: Sea Stories, Diaries, Travel, History
Quarterdeck
Raised quarterdeck of an 18th-century frigate, between the main mast and the even higher [[poop deck at the stern.]]
Gemeinsame Themen: Sailors, History
Die Abenteuer des Kapitän Bonneville, U.S.A.
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Diaries, Description and travel, Travel, History