Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest ...
Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat, round the Horn in a blinding storm, begin viewing a crewmate as their next possible meal, or sail uncharted seas on the edge of the abyss. But it's quite anothe...
From Long John Silver to Captain Hook, Blackbeard to Captain Kidd, pirates are the stuff of legend. Storylines have been based on these terribly charismatic cutthroats for decades, with varying degrees of fact thrown in. Incredible Pirate Tales captu...
Ghosts. Pirates. Put the two together and you’ve got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. It's enough to make anyone say, "Shiver me timbers"--with delight.The spirits of Davy Jones's locker have a long and colorful hist...
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy -- acclaimed author of Remainder and C -- Men in Space it is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast -- dissolute bohemians, political...
Arguing that the Tintin books' characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamed up by the great novelists, Tom McCarthy asks a simple question: Is Tintin literature? Taking a cue from Tintin himself — who spends much of hi...
From the author of REMAINDER and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes SATIN ISLAND, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world -- modern, postmod...
When Daniel Collins and the crew of the Betsey set sail for Cuba in 1824, they have no idea of the horrors that lie ahead. This is just one of the stories in a collection of five true tales about pirates and shipwrecks that introduces readers to the ...
If you visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, you might be surprised to see frames without any paintings in them. This isn’t a mistake -- museum officials hope to someday return the artwork that was stolen from the muse...
Created for adventure addicts • A carefully curated collection of adventure classics• A Lyons American classic• Fresh, new series designThere has never been a more exciting collection of stories that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the Amer...
From the author of Remainder, and two novels short-listed for the Booker Prize, C, and Satin Island, a widescreen odyssey through the medical labs, computer graphics studios, military research centers, and other dark zones where the frontiers of pote...
The timeless battle between savage and sacred Myles Dunn is certain of nothing except that he can never return to Oxford. Two years ago, as a much-admired Jesuit at the threshold of prestige and possibility, he made two irredeemable mistakes: he fell...