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Sea stories

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Edgar Allan Poe

Presents a story of adventure and discovery on the high seas.

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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

"Heart of Darkness" tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post.

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Pirates!

Celia Rees

At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery.

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A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

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Moby-dick

Herman Melville

Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

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Maiden Voyage

Cynthia Bass

Sumner, a boy whose mother is deeply entrenched in the suffragist movement, is raised on stories of heroes and people who fight for right, which makes his dilemma all the more difficult when he is tre

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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The story of an old Cuban fisherman and his battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

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