Deadly Sails - Complete Collection
Classic Pirate Adventures, Mutinies, Shipwrecks, Cursed Seas, and Oceanic MysteriesBy Charles Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Howard Pyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Jules Verne, J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne, Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, William Hope Hodgson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold MacGrath, Harry Collingwood, W. H. G. Kingston, G. A. Henty, Joseph Lewis French, Maturin Murray Ballou, Charles Boardman Hawes, Charles Kingsley, Washington Irving, William Clark Russell, Max Pemberton
Length500h 20m
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Deadly Sails - Complete Collection surveys the perilous maritime imagination, assembling sea adventures in which shipwreck, piracy, mutiny, exploration, and supernatural menace test both seamanship and moral resolve. Its range extends from historical romance and juvenile adventure to Gothic terror, detective intrigue, speculative voyage, and psychologically charged tale. Storm-bound passages, lost islands, naval confrontations, and uncanny waters make the sea not merely a setting but an active force, linking popular adventure writing to larger questions of empire, technology, courage, and survival. The volume draws together writers from British, American, French, and Scottish literary traditions, whose careers span the nineteenth century through the modernist era. These authors collectively shaped the romance of travel, the boys' adventure story, nautical realism, sensation fiction, and early science fiction. Their varied relationships to imperial expansion, naval history, frontier mythology, and commercial popular literature give the collection unusual historical breadth. Familiar canonical figures appear alongside prolific specialists of maritime and adventure fiction, enriching the genre's genealogy. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a single-volume encounter with the many languages of danger at sea. It invites comparison across styles, national traditions, and changing conceptions of heroism, while offering both vigorous entertainment and a useful map of maritime literature's cultural reach. Students, scholars, and adventurous general readers alike will find in its converging voyages a stimulating dialogue between romance, history, fear, and the enduring lure of the unknown.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length500 hrs 20 mins
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Publish dateMar 12, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)
2Deadly Sails - Complete Collection
3History of Pirates of the Caribbean
4Introduction
5Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
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6Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
7Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
8Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
9Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
10Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
11Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
12The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
13Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
14Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
15Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
16Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
17Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
18Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
19Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
20Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
21Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
22Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
23An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
24An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
25Of Captain Misson
26Of Capt. John Bowen
27Of Capt. William Kid
28Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
29Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
30Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
31Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
32A Description of Magadoxa
33Of Capt. Bellamy
34Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
35Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
36Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
37Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
38Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
39Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
40The Pirate Gow
41The Life of Lafitte, the Famous Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico
42The Life of Charles Gibbs
43History of the Adventures, Capture and Execution of the Spanish Pirates
44The Bloody Career and Execution of Vincent Benavides a Pirate on the West Coast of South America
45The West India Pirates
46The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 1)
47The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 2)
48The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 3)
49Appendix
50I. Of Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crew
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