Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

From producer Jerry Bruckheimer (PEARL HARBOR) comes PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, the thrilling high-seas adventure with a mysterious twist. The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's (Academy Award(R) Nominee Johnny Depp) idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's beautiful...

When Lucy and Edmund Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan and a mission that will determine the fate ofNarnia itself!

The setting is 1604, the small villages around Plymouth, England. Gabriel Taverner is summoned to the sailing ship Falco by the captain to help figure out what has made their last passage a complete nightmare. Surely every member of the crew can't be imagining the presence of a blue ghost.

As the gargantuan ship Chathrand sets course through the uncharted waters of the vast and mysterious Ruling Sea, the fragile bonds of trust and love beginning to form between unlikely allies Thasha Isiq and Pazel Pathkendle will be tested to the breaking point, by unspeakable terrors, magical wonders, and shattering betrayals that dwarf anything that has come before.

An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.

This book describes the battle tactics of pirates covering their blades, firearms, cannons, flags, and ships.

"Informative text and full-page photos describe different kinds ships used by pirates"--Provided by publisher.

Retells the history of the USS Constellation and her heroic role played in the war against illegal African slave trade to her exploits in the Civil War to her restoration and use today.

Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned.