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Edmund Talbot's voyage to Australia continues as the old warship, becalmed and falling apart, meets another ship in the southern ocean.
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Master and Commander
In Port Mahon in 1800, Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy, newly given his first command, the little brig Sophie, meets Stephen Maturin, a penniless physician and naturalist, at a concert, and the two begin a friendship that carries them into the Napoleonic wars at sea.
Sacred Hunger
In 1752 a Liverpool merchant builds a slave ship, the Liverpool Merchant, and his nephew Matthew Paris, a doctor ruined by scandal, goes aboard as its surgeon.
Middle Passage
In 1830 Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave and petty thief in New Orleans, stows away on a ship to escape a forced marriage, and finds it is a slaver bound for Africa.
Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American railroad millionaire, falls overboard from a liner and is fished out by a Gloucester cod schooner whose captain won't turn back for months.
Sea of Poppies
A young Indian woman is torn from her family by the opium trade and cast onto a ship bound for Mauritius, in the first volume of an epic trilogy.
The Fraud
The housekeeper and cousin-in-law of a fading Victorian novelist becomes obsessed with the Tichborne trial, where a butcher claims to be a lost aristocrat and a formerly enslaved man testifies for him.
The Caine Mutiny
Willie Keith, a rich young Princeton graduate, joins the navy and is posted to the Caine, a battered old minesweeper, where a new captain named Queeg takes command.
The False Inspector Dew
In 1921 Walter Baranov, a London dentist, sails for New York on the Mauretania with his lover, planning to be rid of his wife on the way. Travelling under the name Walter Dew, the inspector who caught Dr Crippen, he is asked to investigate a murder on board.
The Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.
Pincher Martin
Christopher Martin, a naval officer torpedoed in the Atlantic during the Second World War, drags himself onto a bare rock in the ocean and fights to stay alive.
Longbourn
Pride and Prejudice from below stairs: Sarah, an orphaned housemaid who scrubs the Bennets' petticoats at Longbourn, grows curious about James Smith, the quiet new footman who arrives with no references and a past he will not discuss.
The Go-Between
An old man in 1952 revisits the summer of 1900 when, as a 12-year-old houseguest, he carried secret messages between a Norfolk farmer and the daughter of the big house.