Illustrated Classic: The Call of the Wild

Ferdinand Magellan

High Tide in Hawaii

The Boy Who Met A Whale

The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island

Lightship

Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea (Mint Editions (Nautical Narratives))

What Was the Titanic?

The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel about a literary critic who survives an ocean collision and comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain. The Sea Wolf tells the story of the soft, domesticated Humphrey van Weyden who is forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength. Larsen, who not believe in the immortality of the soul, finds no meaning in his life save for survival and pleasure and has come to despise all human life. Being interested in someone capable of intellectual disputes, he takes care of Van Weyden, whom he calls 'Hump', while forcing him to become a cabin boy, and learn to fight to protect himself from a brutal crew.

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Illustrated Classic: The Call of the Wild

Jack London, 1903

Ferdinand Magellan

Claude Hurwicz, 2001

High Tide in Hawaii

Sal Murdocca, Mary Pope Osborne, Mary Osborne, 2003

The Boy Who Met A Whale

Nizrana Farook, 2021

The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island

Johann David Wyss, Jean Rudolph Wyss, 1812

Lightship

Brian Floca, 2007

Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea (Mint Editions (Nautical Narratives))

L. Frank Baum, Hugh Fitzgerald, 1906

What Was the Titanic?

Who H.Q., Gregory Copeland, Stephanie Sabol, 2018