Length571h 2m

About this audiobook

The Great Sea Adventure gathers pirate novels, treasure-hunt tales, and maritime narratives into a capacious survey of the sea as frontier, prison, marketplace, and imaginative testing ground. Its selections range from realist travelogue and historical romance to Gothic suspense, boys' adventure, imperial fiction, proto-science fiction, and fantastic quest. Mutiny, shipwreck, hidden gold, naval discipline, and encounters across unstable borders recur, while the volume's most memorable modes—piratical intrigue, island survival, and the perilous voyage—reveal how maritime adventure shaped popular narrative. The contributors span more than two centuries of Anglophone and European writing, bringing together foundational novelists, Victorian romancers, writers of colonial and nautical experience, and innovators in detective, speculative, and juvenile literature. Their collective presence situates the anthology within the rise of the adventure novel, the expansion of imperial print culture, and the enduring literary fascination with exploration and commerce. Diverse national traditions and narrative temperaments complicate any single vision of the ocean: it becomes at once a site of freedom, violence, technological wonder, and moral uncertainty. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a broad literary map of maritime fiction. It offers an educational encounter with changing conventions of adventure and a rich dialogue among tales of danger, desire, conquest, and survival. Readers may trace recurring motifs across distinct styles while discovering the sea's remarkable power to connect popular entertainment with historical imagination.

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length571 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 11, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Jackson Gregory Westerns - Boxed Set (Annotated)
2THE GREAT SEA ADVENTURE - Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Maritime Stories
3Jack London
4The Sea-Wolf (pt. 1)
5The Sea-Wolf (pt. 2)
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6The Sea-Wolf (pt. 3)
7The Sea-Wolf (pt. 4)
8The Sea-Wolf (pt. 5)
9The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 1)
10The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 2)
11The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 3)
12The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 4)
13The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 5)
14A Son of the Sun (pt. 1)
15A Son of the Sun (pt. 2)
16A Son of the Sun (pt. 3)
17James Fenimore Cooper
18The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
19The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 2)
20The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 3)
21The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 4)
22The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 5)
23The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 6)
24The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 7)
25The Red Rover (pt. 1)
26The Red Rover (pt. 2)
27The Red Rover (pt. 3)
28The Red Rover (pt. 4)
29The Red Rover (pt. 5)
30The Red Rover (pt. 6)
31The Red Rover (pt. 7)
32The Red Rover (pt. 8)
33Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 1)
34Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 2)
35Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 3)
36Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 4)
37Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 5)
38Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 6)
39Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 7)
40Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 8)
41Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 9)
42Miles Wallingford (pt. 1)
43Miles Wallingford (pt. 2)
44Miles Wallingford (pt. 3)
45Miles Wallingford (pt. 4)
46Miles Wallingford (pt. 5)
47Miles Wallingford (pt. 6)
48Miles Wallingford (pt. 7)
49Miles Wallingford (pt. 8)
50Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
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Die größten philosophischen Romane (Kommentiert)
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TYPEE & OMOO (Modern Classics Series) (Annotated)
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Gesammelte Werke (Kommentiert)
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Bartleby, der Schreiber (Kommentiert)
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Taipi (Kommentiert)
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Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss (Kommentiert)
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Bartleby, der Schreiber: Eine Geschichte aus der Wall Street (Kommentiert)
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The Encantadas
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Vier Monate auf den Marquesas-Inseln oder ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben
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Redburn. His First Voyage
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Moby Dick
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Moby Dick
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Moby Dick
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Moby Dick
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