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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 30, 2018 5:23:47 GMT
tell me some great novels about ships, navigation, the ocean and seamen
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Post by hanswilm on Jul 30, 2018 14:29:42 GMT
The Pirates of the Brig Cyprus (Frank Clune & P.R. Stephensen) it deals with the mutiny and capture of a vessel around the prison colony at Tasmania. Also, The Unknown Shore (Patrick O'Brien), it deals with a shipwreck off the coast of Chile. Both were set in the 1700-1800's.
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Post by Bargle on Jul 30, 2018 15:58:39 GMT
The only one that caught my interest is the Horatio Hornblower series.
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Post by mrdanwest on Jul 30, 2018 19:50:30 GMT
I haven't read them but Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (Master and Commander, etc.) is pretty well regarded
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 30, 2018 20:48:39 GMT
I used to enjoy the Brian Callison books I got out of the library. They were usually set on ships.
Alasdair MacLean's first novel, HMS Ulysses, about a boat on the Murmansk run is a stone cold classic.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 0:41:04 GMT
The Ripple Effect by Paul Garrison. A teenage girl finds out her father didn't die in 9/11 after all, but faked his death and is on an isolated South Pacific island. She steals a sailboat and crosses the Pacific with just her cat to see him. Great novel with lots of sailing jargon.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 2, 2018 18:18:12 GMT
The Odyssey...
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 2, 2018 19:45:58 GMT
Moby Dick
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 23:58:03 GMT
I used to enjoy the Brian Callison books I got out of the library. They were usually set on ships. Alasdair MacLean's first novel, HMS Ulysses, about a boat on the Murmansk run is a stone cold classic. MacLean runs hot and cold for me, but when he's on, he's on. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2018 0:55:00 GMT
I read several of Forrester's Hornblower novels and they were very good overall. Then I started reading O'Brian's Maturin-Aubrey novels and they are on a whole other level.
A few novels about boats:
Run Silent, Run Deep is a first-rate WWII submarine novel by Edward Beach.
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy is very good, too.
Another submarine novel I enjoyed was Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a thrilling adventure for any age.
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Post by needysboy on Aug 4, 2018 0:29:29 GMT
Das Boot. ?
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Aug 4, 2018 3:57:20 GMT
nobody would recommend JOSEPH CONRAD novels?
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Post by OldSamVimes on Aug 4, 2018 6:40:12 GMT
nobody would recommend JOSEPH CONRAD novels? I'm reading Heart of Darkness right now. As far as other ones, I remember 'The Scar' by China Mieville. It had some interesting ideas in it. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 4, 2018 11:35:38 GMT
Moby Dick? Haven't read it though.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 4, 2018 12:03:20 GMT
I haven't read them but Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (Master and Commander, etc.) is pretty well regarded This series is unmatched for its obsessive historical accuracy. And it is just plain fun. |
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 4, 2018 12:55:47 GMT
Haven't read it but Men Against the Sea, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's sequel to Mutiny on the Bounty, might fit. It follows Bligh and the others after the mutiny.
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Post by louise on Aug 6, 2018 15:55:23 GMT
not a novel, but The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby is very interesting. in 1938, as a teenager, he signed on to work on a sailing ship, part of a fleet going to Australia to pick up a cargo of grain. the ships would load up with grain in Australia, and then race back to England. the book was a revelation to me - I had no idea there were still working sailing ships in 1938. It was the last race because WW2 broke out not long after they got back. A really fascinating book.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Aug 30, 2018 12:45:17 GMT
i am reading JOSEPH CONRAD's VICTORY.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Aug 30, 2018 17:00:21 GMT
i am reading JOSEPH CONRAD's VICTORY. nearly 100 pages into it. not bad so far. hmmmmm ..... |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 20, 2018 9:20:38 GMT
A Night To Remember and The Night Lives On, both by Walter Lord about the Titanic.
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