Length569h 41m

About this audiobook

THE DEEP BLUE ABYSS Boxed Set gathers a capacious canon of maritime, island, and oceanic adventure, tracing the sea as both physical frontier and imaginative abyss. Its selections move among Robinsonades, naval yarns, pirate romances, polar and tropical voyages, Gothic disturbances, speculative submarine worlds, and tales of shipwreck, mutiny, and survival. The collection's exceptional breadth places psychological encounters with the elemental alongside buoyant juvenile adventure and imperial-era romance, making the ocean a setting for peril, wonder, commerce, conquest, and moral testing. The volume unites writers from Britain, France, and the United States whose work helped shape nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Novelists associated with Romanticism, realism, Gothic fiction, boys' adventure, science fiction, frontier romance, and modernist sea writing contribute distinct vocabularies of exploration. Together, these voices reveal how nautical literature absorbed changing attitudes toward empire, technology, global travel, masculinity, race, and the limits of human mastery over nature. Their differences are as instructive as their shared attraction to voyage and ordeal. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this boxed set offers an unusually rich passage through the literary history of the sea. Readers can compare narrative tempos, ethical horizons, and imaginative geographies across a single expansive library, discovering how each adventure enters into dialogue with the others.

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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length569 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 11, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Secrets of the Nameless Ship (Sea Adventure Books - Boxed Set) (Annotated)
2Jack London
3The Sea-Wolf (pt. 1)
4The Sea-Wolf (pt. 2)
5The Sea-Wolf (pt. 3)
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6The Sea-Wolf (pt. 4)
7The Sea-Wolf (pt. 5)
8The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 1)
9The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 2)
10The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 3)
11The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 4)
12The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 5)
13A Son of the Sun (pt. 1)
14A Son of the Sun (pt. 2)
15A Son of the Sun (pt. 3)
16James Fenimore Cooper
17The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
18The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 2)
19The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 3)
20The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 4)
21The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 5)
22The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 6)
23The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 7)
24The Red Rover (pt. 1)
25The Red Rover (pt. 2)
26The Red Rover (pt. 3)
27The Red Rover (pt. 4)
28The Red Rover (pt. 5)
29The Red Rover (pt. 6)
30The Red Rover (pt. 7)
31The Red Rover (pt. 8)
32Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 1)
33Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 2)
34Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 3)
35Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 4)
36Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 5)
37Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 6)
38Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 7)
39Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 8)
40Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 9)
41Miles Wallingford (pt. 1)
42Miles Wallingford (pt. 2)
43Miles Wallingford (pt. 3)
44Miles Wallingford (pt. 4)
45Miles Wallingford (pt. 5)
46Miles Wallingford (pt. 6)
47Miles Wallingford (pt. 7)
48Miles Wallingford (pt. 8)
49Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
50Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 2)
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