seafaring life

A stage adaptation of the Herman Melville novel "Billy Budd" about the crew serving on a navy ship in the late eighteenth century.

Presents a brief biography of Sir Francis Drake, the British explorer who traveled around the globe from 1577 to 1580, and includes information on his career as the greatest seaman of the Elizabethan Age.

The top portion of each double page spread shows Sophie's father on a long sea voyage, while the bottom portion shows her activities at home as she is describing them in a series of letters.

When the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals form an alliance to battle the renegade Vampirates, twins Connor and Grace Tempest each have important roles to play in the war--he as a pirate warrior and she as a powerful healer working with the war-wounded.

After his father and brothers fail to return from a voyage to the west, Finn, a twelve-year-old Viking, stows away on Leif Ericsson's ship and sails to North America to search for them.

Chronicles the 150-year history of tall sailing vessels.

Orphaned twins Connor and Grace Tempest, having learned the truth about their vampirate roots, are faced with a new challenge when the Pirate Federation chooses Cheng Li and his crew, which includes Connor, to train to become dedicated vampire hunters.

A rival ship of Vampirates creates unwanted competition on the seas and Captain Li goes on the hunt with Connor Tempest; and meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace spends some valuable time with their mother and learns their family's shocking history.

Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Golden Hind"--the ship of his cousin, explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.