The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads
Undersea Adventures, Naval History, Invention, and Wartime Tales from the Victorian Age to World War IBy A. Frederick Collins, Virgil D. Collins, Edward Stratemeyer, Willis J. Abbot, Charles William Sleeman, Thomas W. Corbin, Charles W. Domville-Fife, Georg-GÃ1⁄4nther Freiherr von Forstner, Robert Fulton, Herbert C. Fyfe, Henry John Sir Newbolt, Freiherr von E. Spiegel, Farnham Bishop, Harold Wheeler, William Barclay Parsons, Paul König, Ajax, Jules Verne, Luis Senarens, T. D. Hallam, Victor G. Durham, Donald Grayson, A. Hyatt Verrill, Clair W. Hayes, H. Irving Hancock, Percy F. Westerman, James R. Driscoll, G. Harvey Ralphson, Elmer Tracey Barnes, John Blaine, Roy Rockwood
Length223h 51m
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The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside anxieties about war, secrecy, and the unknown. Particularly striking are its encounters between practical submarine discourse and imaginative voyages beneath the sea, where machinery becomes a vehicle for suspense, imperial adventure, and futurist possibility. Its contributors bring together engineers, naval commentators, journalists, popular storytellers, and pioneers of science fiction from Anglo-American and European traditions. Their collective work belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture of invention, when naval modernization and mass-market periodicals made the submarine a compelling public subject. The presence of Jules Verne beside writers of technical and military interest underscores the porous boundary between prediction, reportage, and romance; varied national perspectives further illuminate the vessel's global strategic and cultural significance. This compendium is recommended for readers of maritime history, technology studies, adventure literature, and early science fiction. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare registers of expertise and imagination within one volume. Students and general readers alike will find educational breadth in its shifting perspectives and in the dialogue it creates between factual inquiry, popular narrative, and visionary speculation.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length223 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
26CHAPTER XIX
2Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
27CHAPTER XX
3PART ONE
28CHAPTER XXI
4CHAPTER VII
29CHAPTER XXII
5CHAPTER XII
30CHAPTER XXIII
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6CHAPTER XVIII
31The Adventures of the U-202
7CHAPTER XXIII: THE CORAL KINGDOM
32THE ADVENTURES OF THE U-202
8PART TWO
33V
9CHAPTER II
34VIII
10CHAPTER III
35The Voyage of the "Deutschland"
11CHAPTER IV
36The Voyage of the "Deutschland"
12CHAPTER V
37INTRODUCTION
13CHAPTER VI
38CHAPTER VII IN THE ATLANTIC
14CHAPTER VII
39CHAPTER XII RUNNING THE BLOCKADE
15CHAPTER VIII
40The Wizard of the Sea; Or, A Trip Under the Ocean
16CHAPTER IX
41THE WIZARD OF THE SEA.
17CHAPTER X
42CHAPTER I.
18CHAPTER XI
43CHAPTER II.
19CHAPTER XII
44CHAPTER III.
20CHAPTER XIII
45CHAPTER IV.
21CHAPTER XIV
46CHAPTER V.
22CHAPTER XV
47CHAPTER VI.
23CHAPTER XVI
48CHAPTER VII.
24CHAPTER XVII
49CHAPTER VIII.
25CHAPTER XVIII
50CHAPTER IX.
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