Marryat: 214 books

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with...

This semiautobiographical 1836 novel of the Napoleonic Wars reflects the author’s quarter century in the British Navy. Young, spoiled Jack Easy finds his egalitarian ideas challenged when he joins the lower decks, in a story that blends high-seas action with social commentary, a farcical costume ball, and a comic duel scene.

Kapitän William Vanderdecken, für seine Zornesausbrüche weithin gefürchtet, scheitert bei seinem Versuch, das Kap der Guten Hoffnung zu umsegeln. Er stößt einen gotteslästerlichen Fluch aus – für den er büßen muss: Bis zum jüngsten Tag soll er auf einem Geisterschiff die sieben Weltmeere...