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Nautical Fiction Index

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Lieber, Joel (1936-1971)

How the Fishes Live. McKay, 1967. 238 pages

A handful of international characters survive the sinking of a liner and 21 days exposure to the elements only by killing one of their older members and eating him. The novel divides evenly between a close study of the tensions leading up to the harrowing event, and the court trial of the two men who did the actual murder. Reprinted under the title Deep Blue

 

 

 

 

Liepmann, Max Heinz (1905-1966)

Murder - Made in Germany: A True Story of Present-Day Germany. Harper, 1934. 258 pages

Translation of Das Vaterland: Ein Tatsachen Roman aus dem heutigen Deutschland. A steam trawler returns to port to find while on cruise the Nazis have taken power. During shore leave, nearly all of the crew run afoul of the new regime; some suffer beatings by the SA, while others are jailed or sent a concentration camp

 

 

 

 

Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (1870-1944)

Cape Cod Ballads : and Other Verse. Albert Brandt, 1902. 198 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Cap'n Eri: A Story of the Coast. Burt, 1904. 397 pages

Fishing off the New England coast at the turn of the century. Adapted as The Golden Boys (2009)

 

 

 

 

Partners of the Tide. A. L. Burt, 1905. 400 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Pratt. A. L. Burt, 1906. 342 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The "Old Home House". A. L. Burt, 1907. 291 pages

Later reprinted as Cape Cod Stories

 

 

 

 

Cy Whittaker's Place. D. Appleton, 1908. 317 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Our Village. D. Appleton, 1909. 182 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Keziah Coffin. D. Appleton, 1909. 386 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The Depot Master. D. Appleton, 1910. 379 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Cap'n Warren's Wards. D. Appleton, 1911. 379 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The Woman-Haters: A Yarn of Eastboro Twin-Lights. D. Appleton, 1911. 338 pages

Adapted into the film The Lightkeepers.

 

 

 

 

The Postmaster. D. Appleton, 1912. 316 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The Rise of Roscoe Paine. D. Appleton, 1912 468 pages

Adapted into the film No Trespassing.

 

 

 

 

Mr. Pratt's Patients. D. Appleton, 1913. 344 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Cap'n Dan's Daughter. D. Appleton, 1914. 389 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Kent Knowles: Quahaug. D. Appleton, 1914. 450 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Thankful's Inheritance. D. Appleton, 1915. 382 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Mary-'Gusta. A. L. Burt, 1916. 410 pages

Two retired mariners almost ruin business trying to give advantages to a little orphan girl

 

 

 

 

Extricating Obadiah. D. Appleton, 1917. 380 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Shavings. D. Appleton, 1918. 382 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The Portygee. D. Appleton, 1920. 361 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Galusha the Magnificent. D. Appleton, 1921. 407 pages

U.K. title: The Magnificent Mr. Bangs

 

 

 

 

Fair Harbor. D. Appleton, 1922. 379 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor Nye of North Ostable. D. Appleton, 1923. 423 pages

Adapted into the 1924 film Idle Tongues.

 

 

 

 

Rugged Water. D. Appleton, 1924. 385 pages

Classic novel about the US Lifesaving Service.

 

 

 

 

Queer Judson. D. Appleton, 1925. 382 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The Big Mogul. D. Appleton, 1926. 386 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The Aristocratic Miss Brewster. D. Appleton, 1927. 403 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Silas Bradford's Boy. A. L. Burt, 1928. 376 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Blowing Clear. D. Appleton, 1930. 332 pages

 

 

 

 

 

All Alongshore. Coward-McCann, 1931. 532 pages

Reprinted as Cape Cod Characters

 

 

 

 

Head Tide. D. Appleton, 1932. 387 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Back Numbers. Coward-McCann, 1933. 341 pages

Short stories.

 

 

 

 

The Peel Trait. D. Appleton, 1934. 309 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Storm Signals. D. Appleton, 1935. 337 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Great-Aunt Lavinia. D. Appleton, 1936. 339 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Storm Girl. D. Appleton, 1937. 278 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Days. Coward-McCann, 1938. 157 pages

A boy growing up in Cape Cod who eventually becomes captain of his own ship

 

 

 

 

A. Hall & Co.. D. Appleton, 1938. 336 pages

Feud between two Cape Cod families over a piece of land

 

 

 

 

Rhymes of the Old Cape. D. Appleton, 1939. 248 pages

 

 

 

 

 

Out of the Fog. D. Appleton-Century, 1940. 360 pages

Captain Mark comes across a dead body in the fog off Cape Cod in this mystery by the noted sea author.

 

 

 

 

The Bradshaws of Harniss. D. Appleton, 1943. 380 pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lincoln, Joseph Crosby and Lincoln, Freeman

Blair's Attic. Coward-McCann, 1929. 369 pages

 

 

 

 

 

The New Hope. Coward-McCann, 1941. 407 pages

It's August of the year 1814 in the Cape Cod town of Trumet and the British have bottled up both harbors, the one on the Massachusetts Bay side and the one on the ocean side, until not even a small fishing boat can get through the blockade. Under the leadership of Captain Dole and his young companion, Jonathon Bangs, the townspeople have invested their money and their labor in outfitting a merchant vessel and manning her with a crew. They have encouraged gossip around the Cape, which they know the British blockaders will hear, that they are simply overhauling the craft, to be used as a coastwise trader when the war is over. But the real purpose of the New Hope, as the privateer is named, is to try to slip out some dark night after a store of powder has been smuggled aboard and to run through the blockade at the risk of every life aboard and every cent invested in her.

 

The Ownley Inn. Coward-McCann, 1939. 311 pages

Dick Clarke, in disgrace because of the theft of a valuable book from the Knowlton Library, finds himself on old Sepatonk Island, staying at the Ownley Inn, run by Seth Hammond Ownley, who, when asked the reason for the cannon on the front lawn, invariably replies, “To repel boarders.” Then things begin to happen. A hurricane isolates the island; and a wrecked cruising launch starts a train of events which keeps Anne Francis, a charming girl who has quarrelled with Clarke; Perry Hale, a none-too-scrupulous book collector, and most of the other boarders, in a state of commotion and, at times, fear.

 

 

 

 

 


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