Logging you in...
Sea Stories Genre
Books in the Sea Stories genre:
Seabird (1948)
The Seabird follows the history of American seafaring.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Treasure Island (1948)
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. This is a much abbreviated edition.
Author(s):
Haydn Perry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (1949)
Timothy and Hew join forces with Davy Jones to foil the villainous Dan Scumbril and his dastarly crew in their attempt to take over the ocean depths.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater
Illustrator(s):
William Reeves
Tim to the Rescue (1949)
Tim signs on with Captain McFee for another voyage and meets ship’s boy Ginger.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. Powys Mathers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1950)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions had only twenty-six or twenty-four. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Whaler ’Round the Horn (1950)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Christopher and the Columbus (1951)
The captain and crew of the ferry boat Columbus rescue three castaways.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Strong Wings (1951)
Three siblings winter in a Maine fishing village while their parents are in Europe.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Valley of Song (1951)
When the owners cancel the construction of the Swan, Tabitha calls on the residents of the Valley of Song to help the craftsmen of the Hard build the East-Indiaman
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
The Valley of Song (1951)
Tabitha calls on the residents of the Valley of Song to help the craftsmen of the Hard build the East-Indiaman.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
Horatio Hornblower (1952)
In the first of these two novels Hornblower leads a fleet into the Baltic in support of the Russians while in the second he returns to France and is caught up in the fighting during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s return.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
King Penguin (1952)
The story of a young man who goes to sea and is marooned on an island of penguins.
Author(s):
Richard H. Horne
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Hornblower ships as fifth lieutenant in HMS Renown with a mad captain on a mission to harry Spanish possession in the Caribbean. Was he pushed or did he fall?
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
One Morning in Maine (1952)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Adventures of John Wetherell (1953)
Extracts from an English seaman who was pressed into the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars.
Author(s):
John Porrit Wetherell
Illustrator(s):
Edward Gorey
John Porrit Wetherell
The Barbary Pirates (1953)
The fledgling United States Navy takes on the lawless raiders of the Mediterranean.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Charles J. Mazoujian