![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Man Overboard - F. Marion Crawford
LibriVox recording of Man Overboard, by F. Marion Crawford, read by Roger Melin Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin Benton brothers. But oddly enough, it seemed that the 'presence' of the missing twin continued to exist on board during the following weeks...
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| Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts - Stockton, Frank Richard
Librivox recording of Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts. Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the author of The Lady or the Tiger? If you care to read along while listening, the Project Gutenberg website features a facsimile version of Buccaneers & Pirates that includes an antique map of the Caribbean which is a nice ref...
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| A Waterbiography
LibriVox recording of A Waterbiography, by Robert C. Leslie. Read by Peter Kelleher. Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He describes the progression of this love from wave to wave and boat to boat. Leslie sailed during the Great Age of Sail before Industrialism had taken possession of Britain. Leslie comments on the early days of singlehanded small boat sailing: "When I first began boating in the ea...
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