Títulos em Aventuras Marítimas

Jane’s future, the desperate dreams she’s locked in her heart for so long, rest on faraway shores, but being ashore comes with its own challenges; ones that force Jane and Bennett to change their identities, yet again. But, in a life of piracy, grudges are often long-held and blood-tainted. Jane couldn’t have known that when pirates crossed long ago set their vengeful gazes upon her. She isn’t the same woman she was when she climbed aboard Sneaky Lass a lifetime ago. Watching her hopes of beginning a new and lawful life deflate like sails on a windless sea is not who she is anymore.

When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman Sea. There, she forms a deep friendship with Arielle and together they explore the fragile wonders of its forests, reefs, and beaches. Holding their breath for minutes at a time, they learn to dive into the deep, as effortlessly synchronized as the manta rays they come to know by name. Then, on Boxing Day 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami makes landfall, they are swept up by the first wave and separated.

Two years ago, a small plane disappeared over Fiji. For Erin, it’s been two years of obsessing over every detail, refusing to move forward even as life does. Her sister Lori was on that plane, and Erin was meant to be, too, but after a bitter argument, she failed to show. Everyone thinks Lori is dead, but Erin can’t let go. Just when Erin is on the verge of losing hope, the pilot of the missing plane turns up still in Fiji, seemingly with no memory of the crash. In a final bid to find her sister, Erin travels there herself—but what she discovers is beyond anything she could have predicted.

After Liza Maclean's cruel husband decides to do away with her, she finds herself tied up and left to die on a rock in the middle of the sea. All hope seems lost until she is unexpectedly saved… by pirates. Alec Rankin's name is legend among the Western Isles. He and his crew have carved a reputation as bloodthirsty and ruthless. But when he rescues the distraught lady from certain death, Alec's life takes an unexpected turn.

В 1760 году Гийом Лежантиль, астроном короля Людовика XV, отправляется в плавание к берегам Индии, чтобы наблюдать редкое астрономическое явление — транзит Венеры, с помощью которого надеется вычислить расстояние от Земли до Солнца. Капризы судьбы превратили обычно простое и недолгое путешествие в невероятное приключение длиной в одиннадцать лет. 250 лет спустя парижский агент по недвижимости Ксавье Лемерсье находит в проданной им квартире не востребованный прежними хозяевами ящик, в котором обнаруживает принадлежавший Лежантилю телескоп.

Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with his journal as his sole companion. His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence.

Sylt wird zum Albtraum: Eine Mordserie erschüttert die Insel. Kommissarin Hedda Poulsen, frisch strafversetzt und skeptisch gegenüber ihrer neuen Umgebung, wird noch vor Dienstantritt in einen brutalen Fall gezogen. Eine Leiche im Watt, festgebunden und dem steigenden Wasser ausgeliefert, ist nur der Anfang. Bald folgt ein weiteres Opfer, ohne erkennbare Verbindung.

En route to the Galapagos Islands for a deep-sea diving trip with a group of international college students under his care, marine biologist Chris Black leaves his research vessel for a single night to enjoy dinner with friends. When he returns, the ship has vanished. With crew and passengers on board. Modern-day pirates hijacked the boat, hoping to collect a lucrative ransom. Amidst the storm of the century, indomitable Chris Black chases the pirates from island to island, fighting back to save the students under his care in a battle royal aboard the pirates’ mysterious flagship.

It was a grey and misty morning when she appeared on the Cornish shore. A girl of only four years old, soaking wet, unable to speak. With no one to claim her, rumours started to swirl and the villagers began to believe she was brought from the sea, the daughter of mystical sea creatures. Now, newly widowed, she returns to the village to start a new life and as she settles into life in Cornwall, she feels the sea calling to her to come back home.

It's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis was doing his best to keep a low profile: diving, fishing, and enough salvage work to pay his bills. It's a good life until he discovers something while spearfishing that could change the pristine Keys forever.

El corazón de las tinieblas es una novela corta, intensa y perturbadora escrita por Joseph Conrad. Aunque en la superficie relata un viaje fluvial por el Congo durante la era del colonialismo europeo, en su fondo más profundo es un viaje al alma humana. Esta obra se convierte, leída desde la óptica del desarrollo personal, en una parábola sobre la confrontación con nuestras sombras, la fragilidad de la moral y la importancia de cultivar la conciencia interior.

Früh am Morgen bei Niedrigwasser fährt er mit Pferd und Kutsche los, um sich den Unterhalt für den Tag zu verdienen, ein Leben von der Hand in den Mund. Als der amerikanische Regisseur Edgar Acheson in der Stadt eintrifft, wird Thomas' vermeintlich einfaches Leben erschüttert. Er bekommt eine Ahnung von der großen, weiten Welt, davon, was da draußen auf ihn warten könnte, und schließt Freundschaft mit dem Mann, der in jeder Hinsicht anders ist als er.

Recalled home from the West Indies, Lieutenant James Merriman is promoted to the rank of Post Captain and given command of the frigate "Lord Stevenage." It is known that the French are amassing an army and a fleet to invade Ireland and join with Irish rebels. If it succeeds, then England will be ringed by enemy countries under the control of Napoleon Bonaparte, and only the navy stands between France and England.

На долю Зельды Марш выпало немало горестей и жизненных испытаний. Рано лишившись матери, она воспитывалась у тетки, строгие порядки и правила которой совсем не нравились юной девушке. У Зельды была мечта – она хотела стать великой актрисой, поэтому в один из дней попросту убежала из ненавистного ей дома. Совершив немало ошибок на пути к достижению своей цели, девушка несмотря ни на что смогла добиться успеха став в конечном итоге мудрой, самодостаточной, независимой женщиной.

In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me.

Meeresrauschen, eine unverhoffte Begegnung und ganz viel Liebe Das Hörbuch für die Extraportion Herzklopfen an der Ostsee – Jetzt auch als Hörbuch! Um das Chaos in ihrem Leben hinter sich zu lassen, beschließt Kati, Urlaub an der Ostsee zu machen und dort ihre beste Freundin Nele zu besuchen. Denn manchmal muss es doch ein bisschen mehr, ähm, Meer sein, oder? Schon bei ihrer Ankunft stößt sie mit dem viel zu rauen, viel zu bärtigen und viel zu großen Keno zusammen, der sich dann auch noch als ihr Nachbar entpuppt. Von der erhofften Entspannung scheint nun nicht mehr viel übrig zu sein.

It is the autumn of 1852, and the British warship Spartan, commanded by James Rutherford, continues her mission for the East India Company, to destroy a criminal consortium led by the Scorpion, a Chinese criminal named Liang Ziu, who controls an alliance of ruthless pirates, complicit local rulers and corrupt western traders. Attack is followed by counter-attack, including an attempt on Rutherford’s own life, with treachery, extending to the higher echelons of the company, an additional threat, as the hunt for the Scorpion and his allies ranges across the Far Eastern Seas.

In the wake of the Titanic disaster, the RMS Mackay-Bennett is commissioned to recover the bodies of those lost at sea. The film opens with stock footage of the Titanic's departure from Southampton, followed by the harrowing news of its sinking. As the Carpathia rushes to rescue survivors, the Mackay-Bennett prepares for its grim mission, setting the stage for a story of loss, duty, and the human spirit. Captain Frederick Larnder, a seasoned mariner, leads his crew into the icy Atlantic, determined to bring dignity to the deceased.

It is the summer of 1853 and Commander James Rutherford leaves Calcutta once more to renew his campaign against organised Oriental piracy. The principal pirate leader Liang Ziu is dead, but Rutherford obtains intelligence that his criminal organisation continues to operate from a heavily fortified base, secure from conventional attack. Beset anew by intrigue and treachery, Rutherford must somehow confront and destroy this final stronghold, a task which poses difficulties and trials unlike any he has yet encountered.

It is the spring of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is off the Philippines, pursuing her campaign against US shipping. For her captain, Thomas Grover there is much to consider, for with the ship’s previously sustained engine damage not fully repaired, he learns that these seas are now patrolled by a new Union warship that vastly overmatches his own ship. As the war turns increasingly against the south, Grover must redouble his efforts against the enemy, but the hidden threats facing him are as dangerous as the known ones.