7 似ている本: 勇敢な船長たち
台風
TYPHOON is the story of Captain Macwhirr, A dull but reliable seaman and his crew. While at sea, Macwhirrs first mate tells him to change course because of the storm ahead, but Machwirr will have none of that, And then the adventure begins...Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents…
共通テーマ:Classic Literature
老人と海
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
共通テーマ:Fishers, Sea Stories
ジム卿
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his…
共通テーマ:Seafaring life, Sea Stories, Biography & Memoir, Adventure
国なき男
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr.
共通テーマ:Sea Stories, Biography & Memoir, Adventure
アルカトラズ刑務所
The Max Brand Megapack assembles 20 classic Max Brand tales—novels and short stories—set primarily in the American West. For pure Old West adventure, it doesn't get better than this -- more than 3,300 pages of action-packed reading!
Included are:
HARRIGAN (1918)
THE GHOST (1919)
HOLE-IN-THE-WALL BARRETT (1919)
TRAILIN’! (1919)
THE UNTAMED (1920)
OUT OF THE DARK (1920)
RIDERS OF THE SILENCES…
共通テーマ:Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir
大尉バーバラ
This is a play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor.
共通テーマ:Children of the rich, Classic Literature
アーサー・ゴードン・ピムの物語
From the book:UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, Va., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a…
共通テーマ:Seafaring life, Classic Literature