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In Polar Seas – ebook
Fenton Ash
The works of Fenton Ash are highly prized among bibliophile collectors of classic sci-fi and fantasy. Fenton Ash was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. „In Polar Seas” is a romance of adventure in the frozen North, targeted mainly at juvenile readers but billed...Data dostępności:
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In the Misty Seas – ebook
Harold Bindloss
When your country is small and poor, people have two choices. Some decide to stay and raise it from poverty, while others go to seafaring. So most New Zealanders did. So said one of the inhabitants of this country: „Our country is a kind of difficult country, and most of our people go to sea from time to time when they cannot achieve more.” In the same way, our main characters went to seafaring, where...Data dostępności:
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Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas – ebook
Zane Grey
Zain Gray, the master of the discovery of America’s old West, was a passionate fisherman. He was fishing for 300 days! This collection, first published in 1925, describes its fishing adventures in exotic locations throughout the Pacific. Illustrated by more than 100 photographs from a private collection of the author. These stories give rise to the passion that Gray felt like the first man to swim...Data dostępności:
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The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas – ebook
L. Frank Baum
If you like the books by Iain Lawrence „The Wreckers”, „The Smugglers”, and „The Buccaneers” you’ll love the adventures of Sam Steele. „The Boy Fortune Hunters” series began in 1906 with the novel „Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea” (later re-published as „The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska”). The series lasted six novels, ending in 1911 with the novel „The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas”....Data dostępności:
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A Crime of the Under-Seas – ebook
Guy Boothby
There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if...Data dostępności:
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The Ebb-Tide – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne
South Seas, Pacific Islands. Fate throws in Tahiti several people from those who are commonly called the „"white trash."” Different in character and origin, they are united by one thing – they are people who are finished for society. But Fate gives them another chance to return to normal.Data dostępności:
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Jim Maitland – ebook
H.C. McNeile
Jim Maitland is a crazy, wandering wanderer. He crosses the globe wherever he pleases. At the beginning of the book, he is in the southern seas and meets storyteller Dick Leyton, who becomes his traveling companion. Wherever they go, they will need to prove their decency and face criminals.Data dostępności:
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The End of the Dream – ebook
Mary Cholmondeley
The author draws attention to the catastrophe of the future – the destruction of the world as a result of careless and deliberate poisoning by human beings of the atmosphere, earth, seas and rivers, and, finally, the human race itself. This book depicts a terrible future in which poisonous chemicals contribute to the eventual death of humanity.Data dostępności:
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A Fight for Fortune – ebook
T.C. Bridges
A pair of seventeen-year-old boys leaves the house to make their way to fate in the Far Eastern seas. „It must be my hands that are at fault, then,” replied Clive. „I’ve been trying everywhere for the past three weeks, and can’t get taken on. I came down here to look up Captain Brereton, an old friend of my father’s. He’s skipper and part owner of a tramp steamer, the Sphinx. I hoped to cadge a passage...Data dostępności:
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Secret Sharer – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This is a story of less than 100 pages, but in it Conrad demonstrates how many great writers do it, the simple and elegant power of short work. Here, a writer can briefly convey a compelling message in an economic way. The situation is in the southern seas, and we see that our narrator takes his first command near the Gulf of Thailand. A strange young captain finds refuge and harbors another man, and...Data dostępności:
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