Sumner, a boy whose mother is deeply entrenched in the suffragist movement, is raised on stories of heroes and people who fight for right, which makes his dilemma all the more difficult when he is treated to a trip aboard the Titanic and is faced with the issue of women and children first.
Recruited by a famed importer of exotic animals to capture a fabled dragon during a three-year whaling expedition, former street urchin Jaffy Brown and his friend and rival, Tim, successfully capture the beast only to find themselves targeted by superstitious sailors.
While the men of Marstal, a town in southern Denmark, their fates to be set by the sea, from the mid-nineteenth century to the years consumed by World War II, the women of the town are left to raise their families alone.
Tom Bristol, press-ganged into service aboard the British HMS "Terror, " welcomes the chance to jump ship when the "Terror" is attacked by pirates, but his fortunes go from bad to worse when his new crewmates abandon him on a deserted island, leaving him with nothing to do but think of a way to get revenge.
Two men, Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's doctor and intelligence agent, become fast friends aboard a man-of-war ship during the Napoleonic wars.
Presents seventeen works of criticism on Herman Melville's story "Billy Budd, " discussing its plot, characters, themes, and interpretations, and provides a chronology, a bibliography, and an appendix on the story's nautical references.
In 1805, twelve-year-old Jack Hoyton joins the Royal Navy and is posted aboard the HMS Defender, which is on blockade duty keeping Napoleon Bonaparte's ships from invading Great Britain. When the ship's crew is betrayed by a spy, it is up to Jack to rescue some of his crewmates and warn the Defender before it sails into a deadly trap.
Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format.
