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Books in the Sea Stories genre:

Treasure Island (1921)

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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): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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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 Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)

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In search of Long Arrow the Indian, Doctor Dolittle and his companions journey to the floating Spidermonkey Island. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1923
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Den hemmelighedsfulde Ø (1923)

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Prisoners of war held by the Union forces escape in a balloon and are blown out over the Pacific Ocean before crashing near a desert island. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Jorden rundt i 80 Dage (1923)

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Phileas Fogg and the intrepic Passepartout set out to circle the globe in 80 days for a stake of 20,000 pounds dogged by the determined detective Fix. Danish translation, interior black and white illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Kaptajn Grants Born (1923)

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Lord Glenarvan undertakes to circumnavigate the world at the 37th parallel in an attempt to locate Captain Grant of the Duncan. The former quartermaster of the Duncan later turns up in The Mysterious Island. Interior illustrations and possibly cover ... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (1923)

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In this nonstop melodrama the crew of a whaler pick up a group of shipwrecked seamen, are turned around and end up in west Africa, are enslaved, escape and make their way back to America. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Keraban Stivnakke (1923)

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To avoid paying a tax to cross the Bosphorus, Keraban takes a seven hundred league detour around the shore of the Black Sea. Also published in two volumes: The Captain of the Guidara and Scarpante the Spy. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Racundra’s First Cruise (1923)

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A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Arthur Ransome

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Racundra’s First Cruise (1923)

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A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Photographs
Arthur Ransome

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1923)

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Loosely based on his own adventures, Herman Melville here tells the story of two American sailors who jump ship on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and spend four months with the natives. While roundly condemned as fictitious at the t... View More

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

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The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1923)

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This novel of a mutiny aboard a ship bound for the Bermudas is often confused with an account of the actual sinking of a merchant ship off southern Africa in which, while most of the crew and passengers made it safely to land, the vast majority died ... View More

Author(s): W. Clark Russell
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Jim Davis (1924)

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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.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, a Sequel to Typee (1924)

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In this sequel to Typee, the narrator is taken off the island by a whaleman, but soon discovers the captain and mate are incompetent. Along with most of the crew he jumps ship in Tahiti and is briefly jailed as a mutineer. On his release he bums abou... View More

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

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The Wings of the Morning (1924)

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Miss Iris Deane is shipwrecked in the South China Sea along with the only other survivor, Robert Jenks, a cashiered British army officer who was working as a steward. The J.C. Winston edition has eleven color plates, the Doran edition only eight, but... View More

Author(s): Louis Tracy
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1925)

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The Indian Prince calling himself Captain Nemo prowls beneath the sea seeking his revenge.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): William James Aylward

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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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Everybody’s Pepys (1926)

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Selections from the diary of Samuel Pepys, chief secretary to the British Admiralty, kept between the years 1660 and 1669. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Samuel Pepys
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Drake’s Quest (1927)

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The swashbuckling adventures of Sir Francis Drake.

Author(s): Cameron Rogers
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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