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Two young British yachtsman discover a grave secret on the shifting tides of the North Sea coast, in what is often considered the first spy novel.
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Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
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A Dutch trader searches for riches in Borneo, in the first novel by the author of Heart of Darkness.
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A colonial underling struggles with his own decisions on a river outpost in the Far East.
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Separatism, militias, foreign opportunists and corruption converge in an imaginary South American country.
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The slovenly crew of the Narcissus adjusts to life aboard with a black crew member. Be prepared for language offensive to today's reader.
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Upriver, into evil. The great novel and the basis for the movie Apocalypse Now! See blog.
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Revolutionary war espionage off the coast of England, from the author of the Leatherstocking novels.
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Three men, and Montmorency the dog, repair to a small boat for a dryly comical voyage down the Thames.
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Stories of cultures colliding in the South Pacific, by the author best known for Klondike short stories and larger-than-life personal history.
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Marryat's autobiographical first book chronicles a young man's transformation into an officer.
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Ishmael signs onto the whaler Pequod, led by Ahab, who turns the voyage into an obsessive quest for revenge against the whale who took his leg.
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A ragged crew of whalers mutinees in Tahiti, as observed by a cynical, modernly comic, seaman.
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A young sailor jumps ship in the South Pacific, in Melvile's first book. A 19th-century page turner, Typee was far more popular in Melville's lifetime than his masterpiece Moby Dick.
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Published in 1850, White Jacket is both a retelling of Melville's adventures as a seaman on the man-of-war United States and an expose of naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware.
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Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew.
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The great American "road trip" story started with this river story, by America's first celebrity author.
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