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A passenger feels an inexplicable bond with a young woman on an Atlantic crossing.
A gravely ill soldier sails home from the Far East, sustained by memories of snow, family, and a village impossibly far away.
A Norwegian fisherman explains how careful observation saved him when a hurricane swept his boat into the Maelström.
After a storm destroys his ship, a skeptical traveler finds himself aboard an ancient vessel racing toward the South Pole.
A curious passenger becomes obsessed with an artist's six-foot box and the strange marriage surrounding it on a voyage to New York.
Scheherazade tells one more Sinbad voyage, but the king finds modern science and technology less believable than magic.
In a small Michigan town, Liz Coates builds a private romance around the blacksmith whose return from a hunting trip changes everything.
When a fisherman’s arm is trapped in a trawling cable, his captain brother must choose between saving him and saving an expensive net.
A dazzling Mediterranean boat ride turns from news of disaster to a friend’s indecorous tale about snow.
A self-assured traveler plots a conquest on the road to Corsica, certain he has read his companion correctly.
A seasoned traveller argues that real fear comes not from known danger, but from what the mind cannot explain.
A devoted hunter arrives late for the annual guillemot shoot carrying an obligation that tests the limits of his sporting priorities.
A poor family builds its hopes around an absent uncle’s promised fortune during a long-awaited holiday to Jersey.
A night of torch fishing on the Algerian coast leads an old school friend to disclose the jealousy that drove him from France.
A racing tide traps an insurance inspector and an English family on a wreck, creating a New Year he never forgets.
A ferry passenger learns why an old friend’s marriage soured after his once-enchanting English bride became easier to understand.
When an ostrich supposedly swallows a priceless diamond aboard ship, five ordinary birds become the stakes in an escalating auction.
A stranded collector hatches an extinct giant bird on a lonely atoll and gains a companion that keeps growing.
An inventor descends five miles beneath the ocean in a steel sphere and finds that the abyss is neither empty nor lifeless.
A shipwreck survivor in a diving suit is mistaken for a god, but keeping up the role may cost him the treasure he came to recover.
A mild schoolmaster tests his courage with a harmless mock burglary and stumbles into a real criminal escape.
A seaside walker discovers that unfamiliar deep-sea creatures have reached the English coast—and have developed a taste for human prey.
Escaping a wartime prison ship, a sailor wakes stranded on a newly risen ocean floor marked by signs of an ancient marine civilization.
A scholar links a dead professor's papers, a global cult, and a sailor's account to the same ancient being beneath the Pacific.
