sea stories

An adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel about the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that crippled him.

A sailor recalls how the eighteen-year-old wife of Captain Joshua Patten took charge of the clipper ship Neptune's Car during a race from New York to San Francisco in 1856.

Learn to draw pirates and sea creatures, then write a story about them, with a story example and story prompts.

Describes the life of a pirate, named simply Bob, whose job is to cut the steering cables and cripple the ships he and his shipmates will loot.

Nonfiction accounts of ships that sank inexplicably, and other mysterious maritime occurrences.

Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times, the Empress of Ireland, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Brittanic, and the Titanic.

After her parents and brother are killed by Loyalists, fourteen-year-old Hannah leaves their farm and eventually, disguised as a boy, joins a pirate ship that preys on other ships to get supplies for the American Revolution.

When the city of Carthage falls to the Romans during the Punic Wars, Sara, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Carthaginian senator, must gather her grief-stricken father and take to the seas, where, with only with a meager cargo to trade, her healing skills, her wits, and her courage, Sara must face a life wildly different from anything she thought possible.

An abridged version of Herman Melville's classic that tells the story of Captain Ahab and his obsession with the capture and killing of the great white whale that mutilated him, Moby Dick. Includes illustrations.

A retelling of traditional tales of the sea from around the world.