Seaside Stories: 29 Books of Boating Adventures
Twenty-Nine Classic Tales of Shipwreck, Seamanship, Island Exploration, and Courage at SeaBy Edward Sylvester Ellis, Frederick Gordon, R. M. Ballantyne, A. J. Kenealy, A. Hyatt Verrill, Edmund Lester Pearson, Ruel Perley Smith, George Cary Eggleston, George A. Warren, W. Crispin Sheppard, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harry Gordon, Edward Stratemeyer, St. George Rathborne, Vance Barnum, Oliver Optic, E. Boyd Smith, Ross Kay, Cyril Ionides, J. B. Atkins, E. L. Kolb
Length182h 27m
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Seaside Stories: 29 Books of Boating Adventures gathers a capacious body of maritime adventure writing in which coasts, rivers, harbors, and open water become arenas for curiosity, discipline, danger, and comradeship. Ranging from brisk episodic tales and practical boating narratives to mysteries, survival episodes, and morally inflected coming-of-age adventures, the volume reflects the broad appeal of nautical fiction. Its many voyages, rescues, contests, and encounters with uncertain weather give the collection both narrative momentum and a vivid sense of the sea as a testing ground. The contributors represent a wide current of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular and juvenile literature, including writers associated with boys' adventure, educational fiction, travel narrative, and serialized storytelling. Collectively, they draw upon a period fascinated by technological mobility, imperial-era geographies, outdoor recreation, and ideals of self-reliance. Their differing narrative temperaments—comic, suspenseful, instructional, romantic, and realist—ensure that boating is never merely a setting, but a cultural language through which courage, competence, friendship, and ethical responsibility are explored. This anthology is especially recommended for readers interested in maritime literature, the history of children's and popular fiction, and the changing imaginative uses of adventure. Its single-volume breadth invites comparison across styles and eras, offering both pleasurable reading and a valuable survey of how many voices have imagined life on the water.
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GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length182 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove; or, Carried out to Sea
2CHAPTER I VACATION PLANS
3CHAPTER V THE DARK BEACON
4CHAPTER X CARRIED OUT TO SEA
5CHAPTER XIV THE RESCUE
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6The Rival Campers; Or, The Adventures of Henry Burns
7THE RIVAL CAMPERS
8CHAPTER IV. A NIGHT WITH HENRY BURNS
9CHAPTER VI. JACK HARVEY INVESTIGATES
10CHAPTER VIII. THE HAUNTED HOUSE
11CHAPTER X. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE
12CHAPTER XII. A CRUISE AROUND THE ISLAND
13CHAPTER XIV. THE MAN IN THE BOAT
14CHAPTER XVI. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP
15CHAPTER XIX. THE PURSUIT
16CHAPTER XXI. THE TRIAL
17The Rival Campers Afloat; or, The Prize Yacht Viking
18THE RIVAL CAMPERS AFLOAT
19CHAPTER III. A RESCUE UNREWARDED
20CHAPTER V. HARVEY GETS BAD NEWS
21CHAPTER VII. NEAR THE REEFS
22CHAPTER X. MR. CARLETON ARRIVES
23CHAPTER XII. THE SURPRISE SETS SAIL AGAIN
24CHAPTER XV. MR. CARLETON GOES AWAY
25CHAPTER XVII. A RAINY NIGHT
26CHAPTER XIX. THE LOSS OF THE VIKING
27CHAPTER XXI. A TIMELY ARRIVAL
28The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
29THE GO AHEAD BOYS AND THE RACING MOTOR-BOAT
30CHAPTER VII
31CHAPTER XIII
32CHAPTER XIX
33CHAPTER XXV
34The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph
35CHAPTER I.—CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS IN A MOTOR BOAT.
36CHAPTER II.—CAPTAIN JOE FOLLOWS A TRAIL.
37CHAPTER III.—ALEX FINDS USE FOR HIS KODAK.
38CHAPTER IV.—A NEW FACE ON THE RAMBLER.
39CHAPTER V.—WHAT TOOK PLACE ON THE TRAIN.
40CHAPTER VI.—MOURNING AN EMPTY KODAK.
41CHAPTER VII.—PIE THAT LIVED IN A GLASS HOUSE.
42CHAPTER VIII.—A WRECK AND A BABY BEAR.
43CHAPTER IX.—THE MAKING OF A CEDAR CANOE.
44CHAPTER X.—A RABBIT AND A SECRET MEETING.
45CHAPTER XI.—ALEX BECOMES A DETECTIVE.
46CHAPTER XII.—A BEAR, A FISH, AND A TREE.
47CHAPTER XIII.—A MYSTERY AND A FISH SUPPER.
48CHAPTER XIV.—A SWIFT AND PERILOUS RIDE.
49CHAPTER XV.—THE RAMBLER TAKES TO WHEELS.
50CHAPTER XVI.—TEDDY RECEIVES A CALLER.
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