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Books in the Sea Stories genre:

Ballads and Poems (1910)

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Some of the beloved English Poet Laureate’s most charming poetry. This is the enlarged second edition. Read online at archive.org.

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

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Lost Endeavour (1910)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. The frontispiece was used as the dust jacket illustration. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Stephen Reid

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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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My Sea-Side Story Book (1911)

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This is a collection of stories, most by Fenn, including The Little Skipper.

Author(s): G. Manville Fenn
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): W. Rainey
Et al

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The Peradventures of Private Pagett (1911)

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Humorous stories of a soldier of the King, with a bit of an edge. The illustrations in this edition have been colored.

Author(s): Major W. P. Drury
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Sea Fairies (1911)

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Cap'n Bill and Trot visit the mermaids in their watery realm. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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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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Two Years Before the Mast (1911)

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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 trans... View More

Author(s): Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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New Chum (1912)

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The future poet laureate tells of his experiences as a new student aboard the training ship Conway. This edition includes additional material.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Seashore Book (1912)

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Betty and Bob learn about ships and the sea from old Captain Hawes during their summer by the seashore. Read for free online at the Brooklyn Public Library.... View More

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Sky Island (1912)

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Trot and Cap’n Bill meet Button Bright and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s daughter, on their trip to Sky Island. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Camping on the Great Lakes (1913)

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A story of boys boating and camping on the Great Lakes. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Raymond S. Spears
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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Salt-Water Poems and Ballads (1916)

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I must go down the the sea again,
To the lonely sea and the stars.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): George Washington Hood
Charles Pears

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The Water Babies (1916)

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Tom the chimney sweep is swept away to the bottom of the sea. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Lost Endeavour (1917)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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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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All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919)

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Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ben Ames Williams
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Black Buccaneer (1920)

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While guarding sheep on an island off the coast of Maine, Jeremy is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the West Indies. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Stephen W. Meader

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Westward Ho! (1920)

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Amyas Leigh sails from England with Francis Drake and becomes a freebooter or pirate in the Carribean. He later returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada. The novel is blighted by it virulent anti-Catholicsm. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (1921)

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A collection of Howard Pyle’s work dealing with pirates, both artistic and literary. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Et al
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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