The tale of a mortally ill man on a homeward bound ship and the effect he has on his ship mates.
Ocean travel
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Author:Conrad, JosephSummary: - Author:CARTLAND, BarbaraSummary:
Bettina, unwanted by her mother, is sent to a missionary aunt. There the dangers she faces are overcome with the help of a tall dark stranger.
- Author:Ace, CathySummary:
The sixth instalment in the Cait Morgan mystery series, a classic whodunit featuring an eccentric and funny female sleuth set on a Hawaiian cruise ship. Cait and Bud have set sail on a romantic and worry-free Hawaiian honeymoon cruise,...
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force thirteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise...
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Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "...
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
- Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World.
- Author:Preston, DianaSummary:
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and...
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Author:Keith, Esmé ClaireSummary:"Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a Cruise on the Mariola. The Cruise is not just any cruise. It's the whole shebang. It's around the world. It's a lifestyle change: G & Ts and tuxedos and...
- Author:Bates, MarniSummary:
Après avoir suivi Mackenzie dans le premier tome de la série, Miss Malaise, les lecteurs s’attacheront cette fois à Holly qui a elle aussi le don de se mettre les pieds dans les plats! Passer les vacances de Noël sur un bateau de...
- Author:Chaikin, Linda LeeSummary:
Son mariage à Rogan Chantry est tout ce qu’Evy Varley avait espéré, jusqu’à ce qu’elle apprenne qu’elle est enceinte au retour de la lune de miel. Craignant que Rogan refuse qu’elle voyage dans sa condition, Evy décide de lui cacher la...
- Author:Scott, AmandaSummary:
DANGER DANS LES HIGHLANDS Éternellement curieuse, Lady Alyson MacGillivray embarque pour un voyage en mer et fait une surprenante découverte: le jeune futur Roi d’Écosse se trouve secrètement à bord. Mais sa surprise se transforme...
- Author:FIELDING, HenrySummary:
Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable to persevere much...
- Author:Patton, AnneSummary:
Dorothy Bolton and her family are making ends meet in Britain in 1903, but the growing number of stories about vast expanses of fertile, free land have definitely caught the eye of her father and her brother.
It's her father's...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
In April 1907 Jack London set out to sail around the world in the 45-foot ship The Snark, accompanied by his wife and a small crew. Although suffering from seasickness and tropical disease, London wrote prolifically, including a series...
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Author:Pennie, RossSummary:The eagerly anticipated fourth medical thriller in the award-winning series
Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the...
- Author:Ivory, JudithSummary:
When Louise Vandermeer embarks on a transoceanic quest to marry an aristocrat, she dives into a scorching affair with a stranger on the ship.
- Author:Wishinsky, Frieda, Dawson, WillowSummary:
Avis Dolphin doesn’t want to leave Canada and sail to England on the Lusitania. War is raging in Europe, and the Germans threaten to sink the ship. Avis is lonely and afraid until she meets a kindly professor whose stories of a magical...
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Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:A Bottled Up Story Gary Keller is enjoying a cruise with new friends when he meets Scott Haworth, and unexpected attraction flares between them. But Scott has a past he's trying to leave behind; nine months earlier he was released from...
