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Books in the Sea Stories genre:

Sign of the Seven Seas

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A second story about Chris Mason, a boy of today, whose trip to magical Mr. Wicker's Shop in Washington, D.C. sent him back two hundred years in time. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s): None

Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

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His studies at Harvard interrupted by vision problems, the author embarked as a merchant seaman aboard the brig Pilgrim in 1834 on a voyage to Alta California, still under Mexican rule. After helping to cure and load a cargo of cow hides, he was tran... View More

Author(s): Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Illustrator(s): None

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Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841)

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This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Allen Robert Branston

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Mr. Midshipman Easy (1895)

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A young man, who seems very like a fool, is sent to sea and makes good.

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

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“Captains Courageous” A Story of the Grand Banks (1897)

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Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from his liner on the Grand Banks and is picked up by a cod fisherman who proceeds to make a man of him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): I. W. Taber

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Jim Davis (1911)

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Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): None

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Treasure Island (1911)

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When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
N. C. Wyeth

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The Mysterious Island (1918)

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During the American Civil War five prisoners of war and a dog escape from Richmond in a balloon and are driven across the country by a fierce storm and wrecked on a desert island in the Pacific. They proceed to make a home for themselves with all the... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)

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Doctor Peter Blood is taken up in the aftermath of Monmouth’s Rebellion in 1685 and transported as a convict-slave to Barbados. Based on a true story the book tells of his transformation into the dread pirate Captain Blood. Read online at Hathi... View More

Author(s): Rafael Sabatini
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Moby Dick or The White Whale (1922)

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Moby Dick or The White Whale has a good claim to the title of The Great American Novel. Based on the story of the Essex, whaler, destroyed by a whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, Melville draws on his own experiences as a seaman. Read online at Hat... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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The Cruise of the Cachalot (1926)

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This is the story of a cruise after sperm whales by a member of the crew. The scan is of an early reprinting. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Frank Bullen
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)

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Five children, one only a baby, are abandoned on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez. Marian, the eldest, keeps them alive for seven years, waiting for the baby to grow big enough to survive the sea voyage to safety. Read online at Hathitrust . Read... View More

Author(s): Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s): Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn

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The Cradle of the Deep (1929)

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Her memoir describing her childhood attracted media attention and praise. But the acclaim turned to anger when her autobiography was outed as a fiction and it was revealed that she had been raised at her family's home in a middle-class California sub... View More

Author(s): Joan Lowell
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Pirate Twins (1929)

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Mary finds two little pirate twins on the beach and takes them home with her, but they eventually return to the sea.

Author(s): William Nicholson
Illustrator(s): William Nicholson

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Swallows and Amazons (1930)

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The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Steven Spurrier

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The Wreck of the Dumaru (1930)

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After a fierce lightening storm, a ship packed with explosives explodes and sets the crew adrift for twenty-four days in the Pacific Ocean. The survivors are forced into cannibalism, exacerbating their already violent tendencies.

Author(s): Lowell Thomas
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Mapp and Lucia (1931)

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Fresh from her triumph at the Riseholme fete, Lucia takes a holiday in Tilling and a clash of titans ensues as Miss Mapp struggles to retain her position of social leader. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s): None

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The Roving Lobster (1931)

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Unhappy with his life at the bottom of the sea, the Lobster decides to try his luck on the land. He meets many interesting creatures in his travels and in the end decides to return to his home. In this, the second collaboration with Arthur Mason, Rob... View More

Author(s): Arthur Mason
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Swallows and Amazons (1931)

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The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’ Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1931
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)

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Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was t... View More

Author(s): James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s): Henry C. Pitz

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