"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...

"A new novel that weaves together the lives of a young girl from Tasmania and a sailor in search of meaning, whose brief encounter leaves a lasting impact on both. Isla is a lonely girl who moves to Hobart with her mother and brother to try and better their lives. It's not really working until they meet Bo, a crewman on an Antarctic supply ship, the Nella Dan, who shares stories about his adventures with them-his travels, bird watching, home in Denmark,...

"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...

Hugo the elephant's trunk comes in handy when he and his friends are stranded at sea with no wind to sail them home.

A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two. “There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish.” In the spring of...

"It's 1853. Steam is threatening sail, factories are displacing tradesmen, and the immigrants are Irish--unwanted as ever. Young Finn O'Neill is learning the trade of a boatman from his father, when into Boston Harbor sails a Chinese junk, bearing mysteries and magic. Finn and his da work for a young clock mender, Peter Jenkins, rowing him out to meet incoming ships and offer his services. The junk carries Matthew Lawson, a Boston merchant who disappeared...

Bad luck seems to follow Ewan Gilmore, a crewman on the steam liner Isle of Lewis. It's a blot that makes him a pariah among the crew. Now, about to be left behind on the pier, he gets one last chance to prove himself--to masquerade as a passenger and serve as secret bodyguard for a certain Professor Jakub Skovajsa and his gifted daughter, Tereza. The Skovajsas are being deported under a cloud of suspicion and fear. Not even they know exactly what...

Tells the stories of people who survived shipwrecks, airplane crashes and other disasters.