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Adriftby Steven CallahanISBN 1885283164 (1-885283-16-4)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adrift'Book summary:On the night of January 29, 1982, Steven Callahan set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands bound for the Caribbean. Thus began one of the most remarkable sea adventures of all time. Six days out, the sloop sank, and Callahan found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft with only three pounds of food and eight pints of water. He would drift for seventy-six days over eighteen hundred miles of ocean before he reached land and rescue.
Introduction by Edward E. Leslie, Epilogue by Steven Callahan, drawings and photos [via]
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Malvina G. VogelISBN 1577656776 (1-57765-677-6)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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A Brief History of the Circumnavigatorsby Derek A. WilsonISBN 1841197092 (1-84119-709-2)
Hardcover, Robinson
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A Brig of Warby Richard WoodmanISBN 1574091255 (1-57409-125-5)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Captain Bloodby Rafael Sabatini, Gary HoppenstandISBN 0142180106 (0-14-218010-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Blood'Book summary:Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all.[via]
Edited with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand. 
Castaways of the Flying Dutchmanby Brian Jacques, Ian SchoenherrISBN 0142501182 (0-14-250118-2)
Softcover, Firebird
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Celestial Navigation in a Nutshellby Hewitt SchlerethISBN 1574090585 (1-57409-058-5)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Chapman Piloting & Seamanshipby Elbert S. MaloneyISBN 158816232X (1-58816-232-X)
Hardcover, Hearst Books
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Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle Round the Worldby Charles DarwinISBN 1579124925 (1-57912-492-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolfby Donald ThomasISBN 1557508089 (1-55750-808-9)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Colors Aloft!by Alexander KentISBN 1568497288 (1-56849-728-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Curve of Timeby M. Wylie Blanchet, Timothy EganISBN 1552853519 (1-55285-351-9)
Softcover, Whitecap Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curve of Time'Book summary:This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in Haida culture and in nature itself. In this book, she left us with a sensitive and compelling account of their journeys. [via]
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwestby M. Wylie Blanchet, Timothy EganISBN 1580050727 (1-58005-072-7)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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The Dictionary of Nautical Literacyby Robert McKennaISBN 0071419500 (0-07-141950-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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An Eye of the Fleetby Richard WoodmanISBN 1574091239 (1-57409-123-9)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliset Times to the Present Dayby Richard WoodmanISBN 1585746215 (1-58574-621-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Island of the Blue Dolphinsby Scott O'DellISBN 1557360022 (1-55736-002-2)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0140366903 (0-14-036690-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:This edition looks at the Scottish identity through the text of Stevenson's classic. The duality of Scottish life - the mercantile, "respectable" Lowland Scot, as represented by David Balfour, and the romantic, rebellious Highlander, Alan Breck Stewart - runs deep in the psyche and literature of Scotland. Although Stevenson claimed that "Kidnapped" was simply an adventure tale to while away the long winter evenings, the journey and experiences of the characters can be seen as a rite of passage. He questions both the values of the "civilized" Lowland society, and the sentimental view of the highlands portrayed by Sir Walter Scott and others. The topography of the novel is detailed in extensive notes, with a Scots glossary to supplement Stevenson's own. [via]
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Killer's Wakeby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061000469 (0-06-100046-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, J. J. GrandvilleISBN 1582790345 (1-58279-034-5)
Hardcover, Trident Pr Intl
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The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe or York, Marines, As Related by Himselfby Daniel Defoe, Joe WheelerISBN 156179743X (1-56179-743-X)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Penguin Books, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Cedric Thomas WattsISBN 0140431691 (0-14-043169-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary: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 technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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Lord Jim : A Taleby Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Cedric P. WattsISBN 0140180923 (0-14-018092-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim : A Tale'Book summary:When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality.
The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port--and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers.
Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for redemption. This may sound like the bleakest of narratives. But Lord Jim is also touching, elevating, and often funny. Here, for example, the narrator describes the ship's captain (proving that clothes do indeed make the man):
He made me think of a trained baby elephant walking on hind-legs. He was extravagantly gorgeous too--got up in a soiled sleeping suit, bright green and deep orange vertical stripes, with a pair of ragged straw slippers on his bare feet, and somebody's cast-off pith hat, very dirty and two sizes too small for him, tied up with a manilla rope-yarn on the top of his big head. You understand a man like that hasn't a ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes.
This is formidable prose by any standard. But when you consider that Conrad was working in his third language, the sublime after-dinner story that is Lord Jim seems even more astonishing an accomplishment. --Teri Kieffer [via]More editions of Lord Jim : A Tale:
The Making of Master and Commander, the Far Side of the Worldby Tom McGregorISBN 0007157711 (0-00-715771-1)
Softcover, HarperCollinsEntertainment
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Man of War: Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navyby Richard OllardISBN 1842122363 (1-84212-236-3)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Master Marinerby Nicholas MonsarratISBN 1842321501 (1-84232-150-1)
Softcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Mr. Midshipman Easyby Captain MarryatISBN 014005295X (0-14-005295-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: Library Editionby William BlighISBN 1589762282 (1-58976-228-2)
Softcover, Narrative Pr
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Mutiny on the Bountyby William BlighISBN 8854401234 (88-544-0123-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutiny on the Bounty'Book summary:Entries from the diary of British Royal Navy officer and colonial governor William Bligh recount the infamous events that took place on the HMS Bounty in 1789. Despite his adventurous career under Captain James Cook and Horatio Nelson, British Royal Navy officer and colonial governor William Bligh (1754-1817) is now remembered for his harsh treatment of his crew that triggered their mutiny in 1789, an account that is told in Bligh's own words in this volume. The commander and 18 seamen were set adrift in an open boat and came ashore after sailing 3600 miles, a tale that continues to captivate readers even today. [via]
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My Old Man and the Seaby Daniel Hays, David HaysISBN 1565121023 (1-56512-102-3)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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The Mysterious Islandby Jules VerneISBN 1428032436 (1-4280-3243-6)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Nathaniel's Nutmegby Giles MiltonISBN 0140292608 (0-14-029260-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nathaniel's Nutmeg'Book summary:The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope . The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers. [via]
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1414226047 (1-4142-2604-7)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Beagle'Book summary:After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship "Beagle," a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World. On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landing, by fears of our bringing the cholera: the next morning we saw the sun rise behind the rugged outline of the Grand Canary Island, and suddenly illumine the Peak of Teneriffe, whilst the lower parts were veiled in fleecy clouds. This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgotten. On the 16th of January 1832 we anchored at Porto Praya, in St. Jago, the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago.
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Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics, 1650-1815by Brian Tunstall, Nicholas TracyISBN 1557506019 (1-55750-601-9)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the Worldby Roy AdkinsISBN 0143037951 (0-14-303795-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.More editions of Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World:
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The Nigger of the Narcissusby Joseph Conrad, Cedric P. WattsISBN 014018094X (0-14-018094-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Typhoon Amy Foster Falk To-Morrowby Joseph ConradISBN 0140020616 (0-14-002061-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Night to Rememberby Walter LordISBN 0030150760 (0-03-015076-0)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 1593081936 (1-59308-193-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. [via]
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An Outcast Of The Islandsby Joseph ConradISBN 1414217161 (1-4142-1716-1)
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Piratesby Celia ReesISBN 1582346658 (1-58234-665-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pirates'Book summary:Pirates! is a classy and welcome addition to Celia Rees's successful oeuvre, that of novels with a historical background, such as the phenomenally bestselling Witch Child and Sorceress. Swashbuckling in the tradition of every pirate tale, from Treasure Island to Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates! is truly gripping from first page to last and never fails to be totally entertaining throughout.
Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharp are two young women from very different backgrounds who, in time, become united in a common, pirating cause. Nancy, the daughter of a successful Bristol ship owner, had her life all planned out. She lived in comfort and hoped to marry her childhood sweetheart William. But disaster strikes and she is aghast to experience her circumstances turning upside down when her father dies. Soon she finds herself shipped out to land they own in the West Indies to marry for the good of the remaining family.
Minerva is part of the staff at her new plantation home and they immediately become friends--despite the delicate nature of their differing positions as merchant's daughter and slave. But Minerva has complications of her own--particularly from an abusive overseer. Nancy is eventually driven to murder him, and together they become fugitives. Joining a pirate ship comes naturally to both of them and a wild, wild life of seafaring and adventure begins.
With detailed research that leaps from every page, Rees's narrative is atmospheric but never heavy. She moves the story along at a jaunty pace, making it impossible for the reader to get bogged down. Rich and exciting, Pirates! is another triumph and unlikely to be bested by another pirate novel for some years to come. (Recommended for ages 12 and over.) --John McLay [via]
Pirates: Terror on the High Seas-From the Caribbean to the South China Seaby David CordinglyISBN 1570362858 (1-57036-285-8)
Hardcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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Polly & the Pirates 1by James Lucas Jones, Joe Nozemack, Ted NaifehISBN 1932664467 (1-932664-46-7)
Softcover, Oni Pr
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyagesby Richard Henry Dana, Thomas L. PhilbrickISBN 1931082839 (1-931082-83-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous maritime literature, Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 and the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, and the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific."
Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. To Cuba and Back (1859) is his entertaining and enthusiastic account of his trip, during which he toured Havana and a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited chuches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule.
Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. Written with unflagging energy and curiosity, the journal provides fascinating vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War on China, and the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship and the telegraph. [via]More editions of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages:
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 0141181656 (0-14-118165-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service'Book summary:A simple invitation to join his friend Davies on a yachting expedition in the Baltic is the beginning of an extraordinary and dangerous adventure for the bored and worldly but clever Carruthers. As the two of them navigate the waters and treacherous, shifting sands of the Frisian Islands on board the Dulcibella, it is soon clear to Carruthers that Davies has more on his mind than a little duck shooting. As they encounter danger at every turn, Carruthers warms to his courageous and brave-hearted friend and through him begins to discover new strengths within himself and a sense of moral purpose. Sounding a warning of the dangers of a German invasion of Britain across the North Sea, Childers's gripping tale of espionage received immediate critical acclaim when it was published in 1903 and today retains its preeminent place in the genre. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 1593080115 (1-59308-011-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:[via]Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719 and has inspired countless imitations.In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells of the terrible storm that drowned all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted companion.
Full of enchanting detail and daring heroics, Robinson Crusoe is a celebration of courage, patience, ingenuity, and hard work.
L. J. Swingle is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Kentucky, where his primary field of study is the intellectual contexts of British Romanticism as reflected in the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and novelists.
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Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Robinson Crusoe: ISBN 1593081693 (1-59308-169-3)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Robinson Crusoe: ISBN 1557481180 (1-55748-118-0)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc - Robinson Crusoe: ISBN 1561382639 (1-56138-263-9)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub - Robinson Crusoe: ISBN 1561386529 (1-56138-652-9)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Robinson Crusoe: ISBN 3829053797 (3-8290-5379-7)
Hardcover, Konemann - Robinson Crusoe: ISBN 1593080115 (1-59308-011-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Roverby Joseph ConradISBN 1425000452 (1-4250-0045-2)
Softcover, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 1598184318 (1-59818-431-8)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea-Wolf'Book summary:I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter mouths and read Nietzsche and Schopen-hauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay. Not but that I was afloat in a safe craft, for the Martinez was a new ferry-steamer, making her fourth or fifth trip on the run between Sausalito and San Francisco. [via]
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Hardcover, North Books - The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories: ISBN 0140183574 (0-14-018357-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Sea-Wolf: ISBN 1598184318 (1-59818-431-8)
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Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressingby Owen ChaseISBN 1558218785 (1-55821-878-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17by Ernest ShackletonISBN 1421901005 (1-4219-0100-5)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917by Ernest Henry ShackletonISBN 1841581186 (1-84158-118-6)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurnanceby Ernest Henry ShackletonISBN 1558217835 (1-55821-783-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sectionsby Stephen Biesty, Richard PlattISBN 156458321X (1-56458-321-X)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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That Others Might Live : The U. S. Life-Saving Service, 1878-1915by Dennis L. NobleISBN 1557506272 (1-55750-627-2)
Hardcover, Naval Institute Press
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Titanic Conspiracy : Cover-ups and Mysteries of the World's Most Famous Sea Disasterby Robin GardinerISBN 1559723475 (1-55972-347-5)
Hardcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Typhoon: Library Editionby Joseph ConradISBN 185715004X (1-85715-004-X)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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Victoryby Joseph ConradISBN 1421997592 (1-4219-9759-2)
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Voyageby Sterling HaydenISBN 1574090852 (1-57409-085-2)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1853264768 (1-85326-476-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 1573927732 (1-57392-773-2)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Wagerby Richard WoodmanISBN 1574090801 (1-57409-080-1)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Wake of the Perdido Starby Gene Hackman, Daniel LenihanISBN 1557043981 (1-55704-398-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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White Jacket or the World on a Man-of-Waby Herman MelvilleISBN 1421923017 (1-4219-2301-7)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Las Aventuras De Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Aurora LauzardoISBN 8423990435 (84-239-9043-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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LA Isla De Los Delfines Azules/Island of the Blue Dolphinsby Scott O'Dell, Agustin Gil Lasierra, R. Riera RojasISBN 8427931085 (84-279-3108-5)
Softcover, Noguer Y Caralt Editores
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La isla misteriosa/ The Mysterious Islandby Julio VerneISBN 8497862759 (84-9786-275-9)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, PezISBN 9871129505 (987-1129-50-5)
Hardcover, Visor E A S A
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