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 17m
About this audiobook
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 17 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
2Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove; or, Carried out to Sea
3CHAPTER I VACATION PLANS
4CHAPTER V THE DARK BEACON
5CHAPTER X CARRIED OUT TO SEA
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6CHAPTER XIV THE RESCUE
7The Rival Campers; Or, The Adventures of Henry Burns
8The Rival Campers; Or, The Adventures of Henry Burns
9THE RIVAL CAMPERS
10CHAPTER IV. A NIGHT WITH HENRY BURNS
11CHAPTER VI. JACK HARVEY INVESTIGATES
12CHAPTER VIII. THE HAUNTED HOUSE
13CHAPTER X. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE
14CHAPTER XII. A CRUISE AROUND THE ISLAND
15CHAPTER XIV. THE MAN IN THE BOAT
16CHAPTER XVI. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP
17CHAPTER XIX. THE PURSUIT
18CHAPTER XXI. THE TRIAL
19The Rival Campers Afloat; or, The Prize Yacht Viking
20The Rival Campers Afloat; or, The Prize Yacht Viking
21THE RIVAL CAMPERS AFLOAT
22CHAPTER III. A RESCUE UNREWARDED
23CHAPTER V. HARVEY GETS BAD NEWS
24CHAPTER VII. NEAR THE REEFS
25CHAPTER X. MR. CARLETON ARRIVES
26CHAPTER XII. THE SURPRISE SETS SAIL AGAIN
27CHAPTER XV. MR. CARLETON GOES AWAY
28CHAPTER XVII. A RAINY NIGHT
29CHAPTER XIX. THE LOSS OF THE VIKING
30CHAPTER XXI. A TIMELY ARRIVAL
31The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
32The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
33THE GO AHEAD BOYS AND THE RACING MOTOR-BOAT
34CHAPTER VII
35CHAPTER XIII
36CHAPTER XIX
37CHAPTER XXV
38The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph
39CHAPTER I.—CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS IN A MOTOR BOAT.
40CHAPTER II.—CAPTAIN JOE FOLLOWS A TRAIL.
41CHAPTER III.—ALEX FINDS USE FOR HIS KODAK.
42CHAPTER IV.—A NEW FACE ON THE RAMBLER.
43CHAPTER V.—WHAT TOOK PLACE ON THE TRAIN.
44CHAPTER VI.—MOURNING AN EMPTY KODAK.
45CHAPTER VII.—PIE THAT LIVED IN A GLASS HOUSE.
46CHAPTER VIII.—A WRECK AND A BABY BEAR.
47CHAPTER IX.—THE MAKING OF A CEDAR CANOE.
48CHAPTER X.—A RABBIT AND A SECRET MEETING.
49CHAPTER XI.—ALEX BECOMES A DETECTIVE.
50CHAPTER XII.—A BEAR, A FISH, AND A TREE.
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