検索キーワード： 海洋冒険

After a harrowing escape from two thug wannabes and the casino controlling Florida Mafia last year, Nick Dawson and Brad Radcliffe were able to locate the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. Now they are being commissioned to do it again. A former New York City investment advisor regales them with an old sea story from his father, and tangible proof of his claim. It seems the tag-along French vessel, Griffon, survived the massive 1715 hurricane and, after doing so, seemed to have changed its mission.

The year was 1715. A Treasure Fleet comprised of 11 Spanish ships and one French vessel was blown onto the reefs off of the east-central coast of Florida by a massive hurricane. Eleven of the 12 vessels were dismasted, broken like kindling, and sent to the seafloor in less than 20 feet of water.

National security agent Cade Rearden is used to secrets. Assigned to protect the ultra-dark organization known as The Cove Project, he grapples with his role of defending a country still in crisis after a deadly super AI has devastated much of the US. But when part of his team mysteriously disappears beneath the idyllic waters of the Caribbean, Cade finds himself thrust into a web of lies and mystery, at the heart of which lies an eons-old secret that somebody will kill to protect.

He’s never had to compete for a job before - and she fights like a girl. Loner James Malloy is a ferry captain - or used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Island’s daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored. When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such “improvements”.

In 1789 HMS Bounty under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh sailed off on a voyage to Tahiti in the South Pacific to obtain breadfruit trees for transplanting in the Caribbean. After a long, difficult voyage, in which a passage of Cape Horn had to be abandoned, the ship finally reached its destination. Within a few months, the Bounty was loaded with breadfruit plants and fresh provisions. But the return voyage never materialized.

Un'opera divenuta leggenda rivive nelle parole di Pratt, che torna a intrecciare in un romanzo i destini di personaggi indimenticabili come il capitano Rasputin, i giovani Pandora e Cain, e naturalmente Corto Maltese. Seguendo il filo del racconto, ci addentriamo nel raffinato gioco psicologico tra amici e complici, pirati e guerrieri, sullo sfondo dei celebri paesaggi del maestro del fumetto italiano. In un viaggio senza meta, dai vicoli bui di Cordova alle tempeste sull'Oceano Pacifico, assaporiamo di nuovo tutto il piacere puro dell'avventura.

Un gruppo di pescatori norvegesi con la loro barca si imbatte in una improvvisa e violenta tempesta. La piccola imbarcazione viene sospinta dai flutti delle onde al centro di un immenso vortice perenne presente in quella zona, chiamato maelström. Per i pescatori è impossibile sfuggire a quel fenomeno naturale: una volta che si viene attirati verso il centro, infatti, si apre un abisso a forma di cono, che scaraventa la barca sul fondale con incredibile violenza. I marinai vengono risucchiati dal vortice, ma uno di loro si salva aggrappandosi a un barile vuoto.

"La laguna" è un racconto breve composto nel 1896 e pubblicato per la prima volta nel "Conrhill Magazine". La storia narra di un uomo bianco, riferito come "Tuan" (l'equivalente di Lord o Sir) che viaggia attraverso la foresta pluviale indonesiana. L'uomo è costretto a fermarsi per una notte con un amico malesiano di nome Arsat. Al suo arrivo trova Arsat sofferente perchè la sua amata sta morendo. Arsat racconta all'uomo la storia del suo passato. La storia è colma di simbolismi, quali l'uso del chiaro/scuro, bianco/nero, alba/tramonto.

Questo libro, pubblicato nel 1851 senza alcun successo, e riscoperto nel 1921, quando evidentemente il pubblico, maturato, poteva apprezzarlo, è considerato un capolavoro della letteratura americana, e si è talmente tanto radicato nell'inconscio collettivo che il nome di Moby Dick ha assunto ovunque il significato dell Assoluto irraggiungibile e della inevitabile sconfitta dell'orgoglio umano di fronte alle forze metafisiche.

Kapitän Bligh ist ein harter Hund. Ein Teil seiner Untergebenen will seinen Befehlsstil auf dieser Südseereise nicht länger hinnehmen. Angeführt von Fletcher Christian werden Bligh und seine Getreuen in einem Boot ausgesetzt. Doch der Kapitän ist ein ausgezeichneter Navigator und schafft es bis nach England. Unverzüglich wird von dort ein Schiff ausgesandt, um den Meuterern den Prozess zu machen... Diese berühmte Seemanns-Geschichte ist zahlreich verfilmt worden!

Salzige Meeresluft, Möwenschreie, ein strahlend blauer Himmel: Aufbruchstimmung auf der MS Kristiana, die Kurs nach Norwegen nimmt. Adrian, der Kapitän des neuen umweltfreundlichen Kreuzfahrtschiffes, tritt die Reise mit gemischten Gefühlen an. Er ist gerade von einer Arktis-Expedition zurück, die ihm Abstand zu seiner Frau Eva bringen sollte. Nun ist sie überraschenderweise als Schiffsärztin mit an Bord. Sie möchte Adrian zurückgewinnen, aber sie ist nicht die Einzige, der etwas an Adrian liegt.

Feierlich tritt die "Star of the Ocean" von Hamburg aus ihre Jungfernfahrt zu den Metropolen Westeuropas an. Mit an Bord ist Wilhelmina Nissen, Matriarchin einer Hamburger Kaffeerösterei. Sie hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis, das bis in die Kriegswirren von 1942 zurückreicht. Eva Bredin begleitet ihre Großtante. Sie folgt den Spuren ihrer Freundin Sanne, die vor zwanzig Jahren auf mysteriöse Weise verschwand.

"Veridica relazione degli strani eventi accaduti nella nostra città l'inverno 1888, così come da me registrati..." Con queste parole, cariche di mistero e aspettativa, inizia il documento che il narratore dice di aver trovato nel cassetto segreto di un mobile di famiglia. E ben più che strani sono gli eventi che si svolgono in una ricca e tranquilla città di mare affacciata sul Baltico negli anni in cui la navigazione a vapore ha ormai sostituito i grandi velieri.

"Der Hotelier sagt, das ist kein Wind. Ich versuche, die Basstölpel zu fotografieren, aber der Wind, der keiner ist, schlägt mir immer wieder die Kamerahand weg. Ich habe meine Kapuze festgezurrt und lehne mich bei jedem Schritt nach vorn, um überhaupt voranzukommen." In der erlesenen MARE-Inselreihe folgt in diesem Sommer ein Ausflug mit Isabel Bogdan nach Helgoland, wo der Wind so weht und das Meer überall und so blau ist, Erinnerungen an James Krüss aufkommen und das Schreiben leicht von der Hand geht.

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death - with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, time, and the nature of our surroundings. The stories in Storm have more to say than that. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.

The venue is booked, the dress is picked and senior midwife Anna Jones only has to say ‘I do!’ to the man she loves! Theirs might have been a whirlwind romance but Brae Penrose is everything Anna dreamed her husband would be, and she can’t wait to start a family with him. But as the big day approaches, Anna still isn’t pregnant and when disaster strikes, their perfect day looks destined not to happen at all! Is it a sign to slow things down?

The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse’s addiction to the substance that made him a dealer and forced him to move to this airless, inhospitable planet. But when the all-powerful galactic Confederacy declares Flare illegal, the needs of Newhouse and his clientele leave the desperate off-worlder no choice but to sign on as an able seaman aboard a dustwhaler and hunt the giant creatures himself.

In the world of maritime treasure hunting, former college professor Walt Baker is about to hit the lottery. More than 300 years ago, the legendary Spanish galleon Santa Ramona sank in a hurricane somewhere off the coast of Florida. The ship was carrying gold, silver, jewels, and artifacts worth an estimated $10 billion in today’s dollars. With $10 billion at stake, the best criminal minds will scheme to take what’s not theirs.

The sailing vessel Albatross went down in a white squall in 1961. The young man at the helm that fateful day, now in his 70s, meets Breeze in Pelican Bay. Together they set out to revisit the scene and allow for a final reckoning. Modern-day pirates interrupt their quest. They will be made to pay. Meanwhile, a pesky private detective resurfaces, threatening to reveal dark secrets. Breeze devises a plan to take care of the pirates and his nemesis at the same time. He is forced to race against time as a statewide Coronavirus lockdown looms.

It's 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty's Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife's untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: Become a wealthy man by selling out Britain's spy network to France.