"Captain Frederic Hinckley...was sailing on the ship Living Age when she hit a reef in the Pacific...escaping aboard a raft to Pratas Island." - A Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod (2018)"Frederic Hinckley...died suddenly yesterday...he went to sea as a boy...passed 16 years at sea, mostly in the China trade...while aboard the Living Age, his ship wrecked on Pratus Shoals, after 36 days on the wreck the men made their way to Pratus Island on a raft." -Boston Globe, Ma...

An enemy frigate is outward bound to play havoc with the vital British whaling trade, and must be stopped at all costs.Racing against time, Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew must chase the USS Norfolk as she rounds Cape Horn, pursuing her into the Great South Sea and beyond. Following the equator, ahead of them lies not only the natural wonders of the Galapagos but also a succession of disasters – men overboard, castaways, typhoons, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and ...

On foreign shores, and far from home, a friend can become a foe in a heartbeat.Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies as the Napoleonic Wars rage on, circumstances look far from promising for Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew. And yet, having overcome the odds and contrived their escape, still further peril awaits in the fiercely tidal waters of the Salibu Passage and the penal settlements of New South Wales.What fresh dangers lie over the hori...

Entrusted with a secret mission, the perils of the South China Sea await.In the fight against the French, a treaty with the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a piratical Malay state, may prove decisive. Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, along with a hand-picked crew, must survive the dangers of the high forties and convey a diplomatic envoy to ensure this key alliance, but dangers, both natural and man-made, will dog their every move.When echoes of the p...

Stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire.Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, or search for the Northwest Passage with Franklin’s doomed crew, or watch their mates being beheaded by angry pirates like Daniel Collins. But it’s quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Here are stoic and hardy sailors who persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. The...

A good description of a trip on the Rhody Carter out of Marblehead Massachusetts to the Grand Banks in search of Cod during the mid nineteenth century.

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories—among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story—that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction.This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brill...

An early exploration briefly describes life with the Inuit peoples during the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated.

A wonderful personal account of arctic hunting in the 1900s. A thrilling read for hunters and fans of adventure alike. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Sable Island is today an environmentally fragile, protected island. During the 19th century it was a true hazard to navigation. Over time there have been more than 300 shipwrecks on the island, and during the 19th century was home to a band of men dedicated to lifesaving. This is the story of a visit to the island in the mid nineteenth century.

In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship's official logbook.Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: Incidents of a Whaling Voyage by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841); ...

This piece was part of a series describing working life as it was during the 1890's. This piece shows a sailor's life on a typical merchant vessel just as the age of sail was coming to an end. Written by a man well known for his adventurous sea stories.