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"This title is set 200-300 years ago in the Golden Age of Sail. The main character, Scratch Kitten is tired of life at the docks and so he stows away to sea on a sailing ship. Once aboard, he must try to discover how to become a useful ship's cat so that the sailors will let him stay. But he keeps getting it wrong. We learn a lot about life aboard an olden day sailing ship, and also a little bit about the way cats think!"--Provided by publisher.

As the compass makers of Crosspointe are dying, threatening to plunge the kingdom into chaos, the King orders his son Ryland to commit a heinous act. The result is worse than anyone could have dreamed, and Ryland is soon at war with the majicar Shaye and the metalsmith Fairlie.

"Learn how to successfully complete a voyage from Portugal to India for spices in the 1500s"--Provided by publisher.

John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce's old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers. Back in England their problems continue: Pearce must seek to mend fences with Emily Barclay, in a relationship in which...

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the...

Linda Greenlaw hadn't been blue-water fishing for ten years, since the great events chronicled in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean, when an old friend offered her the captaincy on his boat, Seahawk, for a season of swordfishing. She took the bait, of course, and thus opened a new chapter in a life that had already seen enough adventure for three lifetimes. The Seahawk turns out to be the rustiest of buckets, with sprung, busted, and ancient...