Ballantyne: 427 books

When newlywed Zara’s husband, Richard, orders her to remain in England because his photojournalism assignment in the Amazon rainforest will be too dangerous for her, she secretly buys a plane ticket and beats him to Brazil. Will the monumental spanking that follows her arrival make her question...

By the early light of a bright summer morning, long, long ago, two small boats were seen to issue from one of the fiords or firths on the west coast of Norway, and row towards the skerries or low rocky islets that lay about a mile distant from the mainland

Join us aboard a pirate ship in a time that never was. A swashbuckling tale of mutiny and courage set in the Pacific. Vivid and entertaining.

The dog Crusoe was once a pup. Now do not, courteous reader, toss your head contemptuously, and exclaim, "Of course he was; I could have told you that." You know very well that you have often seen a man above six feet high, broad and powerful as a lion, with a bronzed shaggy visage and the...

Historic look at deep diving procedures and apparatus, very enlightening! (Amazon)

This is a tale of a Sea-rover, or Viking as they're called. In the author's own words: The present tale is founded chiefly on the information conveyed in that most interesting work by Snorro Sturleson 'The Heimskringla, or Chronicles of the Kings of Norway.' It is translated from the Icelandic. On...

A young crewman on a trawler learns about life, and falls in with the right people.  Quite a telling, thrilling adventure.

In the second half of the seventeenth century, the Scottish Kirk was in direct conflict with the King of England. By 1666, the king s soldiers were given lists of the names of the Scottish Covenanters by the curates, who then hunted them down and persecuted them. This is the story of Will Wallace...

The great Pacific is the scene of our story. On a beautiful morning, many years ago, a little schooner might have been seen floating, light and graceful as a seamew, on the breast of the slumbering ocean. She was one of those low, black–hulled vessels, with raking, taper masts, trimly–cut sails,...

Der Londoner Anwalt Daniel Hunter ist der Mann für hoffnungslose Fälle. Doch als der 11jährige Sebastian, der einen Jungen ermordet haben soll, sein Klient wird, ändert sich alles. Denn je tiefer er in die schwierigen Familienverhältnisse Sebastians eintaucht, desto mehr erinnert er sich an seine...