The Black Tarantula emerges in the third book of this award winning series, as a wanton and maniacal pirate scourge, extending his insidious reign of terror and foul depredations across the entire West Indies. Dreaded by seamen and landlubbers, this demon's unmitigated abominations continue endlessly.Only one brave hero is capable of thwarting this nautical fiend. To attain success, our resourceful commander will need to employ every trick in his well-honed arsenal. The critical question being will that be enough?

In the 1700s, merchant shipping in the Caribbean, African, and English seas, along with coastal cities, were targeted by pirates. Mutinies, even though rare, occurred due to low pay and unsanitary conditions. I Thought I Was Alone: A Pirate's Tale is such a story.Finney, a greenhorn sailor, was on such a vessel. After the mutiny, Finney finds himself alone on a three-mast schooner in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. Hoping to sail home to England alone began his many adventures.Finney found an island with an ancient city and a treasure room. He gets captured by cannibals, pirates, and the English Royal Navy, who steals his treasure. He is championed by an outer-space alien race who assists him in getting his treasure back.Finally, in England, he buys his own merchant shipping company and is befriended by the king, who promotes him to admiral with the task of eliminating the seas of a bloodthirsty pirate queen.Sail with Finney as he finds himself in awkward and dangerous situations. I dare you to put it down.

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The goal of this collection of the greatest sea adventure novels is to awake your lust of voyage, your sense of adventure and the joy of discovery. Content: Captain Charles Johnson: The History of Pirates R. L. Stevenson: Treasure Island Jack London: The Sea Wolf The Mutiny of the Elsinore A Son of the Sun Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton Tobias Smollett: The Adventures of Roderick Random Walter Scott: The Pirate Frederick Marryat: Mr. Midshipman Easy Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific" Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket James Fenimore Cooper: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea The Red Rover Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale Miles Wallingford Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea Thomas Mayne Reid: The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Victor Hugo: Toilers of the Sea Herman Melville: Redburn White-Jacket Moby Dick Benito Cereno R. M. Ballantyne: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean Fighting the Whales Jules Verne: The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant 20 000 Leagues under the Sea Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen An Antarctic Mystery L. Frank Baum: Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea Randall Parrish: Wolves of the Sea Charles Boardman Hawes: The Dark Frigate The Mutineers Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Lord Jim Typhoon The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous Ralph Henry Barbour: The Adventure Club Afloat Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood The Sea-Hawk Jeffery Farnol: Black Bartlemy's Treasure Martin Conisby's Vengeance Henry De Vere Stacpoole: The Blue Lagoon The Garden of God