Nautical Fiction List (Long)
John Kohnen
Stuart Wier, who originated it. Many thanks to Stuart for getting this
project of the ground. I will try to post an updated list about the 15th
of every month. Send contributions, corrections, flames, etc. to me:
John Kohnen (jko...@efn.org)
Regrettably, I removed Vincent Bugliosi's book about the South Sea
island murder and the entry for Farley Mowat because even though the
books mentioned are good reading they are not fiction. I have my doubts
about The Boy, Me, and the Cat, but it remains until its fictionality
can be proved or disproved. If an author has written fiction that is
mentioned in this list I think it's kosher to include mention of his or
her non-fiction work, but otherwise non-fiction belongs in another list.
Help from you I'd most like to get:
What is the 17th book in A. Kent's Richard Bolitho series?
What are the 6th, 7th, and 8th books in Pope's Ramage Series, and any
after the twelfth?
What was the book that was made into the 1955 John Wayne movie called
The Sea Chase about a German freighter trying to get home from Asia at
the start of WW II? As usual, the book was much better than the movie
but I can't remember the title or author.
Very short synopses of the books in this list that don't already have
them, and corrections to the existing ones, if needed.
More titles and authors!
Thanks. I'll try not to be so long-winded in future intros. Here's the list:
Nautical Fiction in English
(novels, novelettes, short stories, poetry, and drama)
August 15, 1994
Alphabetical by author's last name, with incidental information, and dates
when first published, if known. There may be errors!
Thomas B. Allen Ship of Gold (Thriller, CIA, Pentagon, etc. seek sunken ship)
Jorge Amado Home is the Sailor: the whole truth concerning the
Redoubtful Adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao,
Master Mariner
John Barth Sabatical, 1982
Tidewater Tales, 1987
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, 1991
Ronald Bassett The Tinfish Run
H. E. Bates The Cruise of the Breadwinner, 1946 (WW II fishing boat on patrol)
Edward Beach (submarine officer from WWII to nuclear era, Captain of the
Triton on the round-the-world-submerged run, and a good writer.)
Run Silent, Run Deep (WW II Pacific submarine action)
Dust on the Sea (WW II submarine tale)
Jack Becklund Golden Fleece
Peter Benchley Jaws (1974)
Don Berry To Build a Ship, 1963 (Building a ship in the wilderness on
Tillamook Bay in the early pioneer days)
Archie Binns Lightship, 1934 (Lives of the crew of a lightship off the
northwest coast)
Godfrey Blunden Charco Harbour: A novel of unknown seas and a fabled shore
passaged with coral reefs and magnetical islands, of
shipwreck and a lonely haven; the true story of the last of
the great navigators, his bark, and the men in her, 1968
Richard Bode Blue Sloop at Dawn (Small boat sailing off Long Island, from
duckboats to the "sloop of dreams")
Pierre Boulle The Whale of the Victoria Cross (During the Falkland Is. war,
a whale, first mistaken for a submarine, becomes a hero)
William Brinkley The Last Ship (US destroyer survives nuclear war)
The 99 (LST supports allied landings in Italy)
Don't Go Near the Water (WW II comedy)
Jimmy Buffett Tales of Margaritaville, 1989
Where is Joe Merchant?
Kenneth F. Brooks Run to the Lee, 1965 (Chesapeake oyster schooner; a blizzard)
Buchheim, Lothar Gunther The Boat (WWII German submarine; very authentic)
Brian Callison A Flock of Ships
A Plague of Sailors
A Web of Salvage
A Ship is Dying
Trapp's War
Sextant
The Judas Ship (WW II tale)
Ian Cameron The White Ship (Treasure hunt in the S. Sandwich islands)
Lou Cameron The Amphorae Pirates (Diving for ancient treasures off Greece)
John Casey Spartina, 1989 (modern tale of men who work in small craft)
Jack L. Chalker The Devil's Voyage, 1981 (About USS Indianapolis' sinking)
Donald B Chidsey Captain Adam (18th century nautical adventure)
Warwick Collins (titles unknown: "America's Cup trilogy")
Joseph Conrad (twenty years under sail and steam; a top English writer)
novel: Lord Jim, 1900
stories:
Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897
Youth, 1902
Typhoon, 1903
The Heart of Darkness
The Secret Sharer, 1910
The Shadow Line, 1916 or 1917
Within the Tides (tales)
(also wrote nonfiction "Mirror of the Sea" one of the best)
Cooper, James Fenimore (Cooper's sea tales are supposed to be much better
than his famous frontiersmen stuff)
The Pilot
The Red Rover, 1850
Afloat and Ashore
Two Admirals, a Tale of the Sea
Bernard Cornwell (also author of the Sharpe's rifles series;
and novels of the American revolution)
Sea Lord
Crackdown, 1990
Storm Child, 1991
Killer's Wake
Wildtrack
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands, 1903 (pre WWI yachtsmen find German
military preparations. One of the Best. The classic
adventure of cruising along the sand banks of the North Sea.
Compare to Maurice Griffith's nonfiction books about the
same areas. See also biography The Riddle of Erskine
Childers, by Andrew Boyle, 1977.)
Tom Clancy The Hunt for Red October (nuclear submarine hunt)
Micha DiMercurio Voyage of the Devilfish, 1992 (Near-future submarine clash)
Arthur Conan Doyle short stories:
The Striped Chest
The Captain of the "Polestar"
The Fiend of the Cooperage
Jelland's Voyage
J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
That Little Square Box
The Fate of the Evangeline
Touch and Go: A Midshipman's Story
The Tragedy of "Flowery Land"
Death Voyage
pirate Stories:
Captain Sharkey: How the Governor of St. Kitt's Came Home
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Steven Craddock
The Blighting of Sharkey
How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey
The "Slapping Sal"
Kenneth Dodson Away All Boats, 1954 (WW II attack transport in the Pacific;
on video)
Alan Evans Dauntless: WW I cruiser in the Med.
George McDonald Fraser Pyrates (comic spoof of Hollywood sea movies)
C.S. Forester (Prior to Patrick O'Brian, regarded as the uniquely satisfying
novelist on naval life in the Napoleanic period. Also wrote
several histories.)
African Queen, 1935 (steam launch on African river)
The Ship, 1943
The Captain From Connecticut, 1941 (U.S. frigate captain ca. 1812)
Gold from Crete, 1970 (WW II stories)
The Good Shepard, 1955 (US destroyer escorts N. Atlantic convoys
during WW II)
The Man in the Yellow Raft, 1969 (WW II stories)
The Earthly Paradise, 1940 (Columbus)
Brown on Resolution (Marooned Britsh sailor takes on WW II German
raider single-handed, filmed as Sailor of the King)
The Hornblower Saga, novels, with dates covered by each book:
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower 6/1794 - 4/1798
Lieutenant Hornblower 5/1800 - 4/1803
Hornblower and the Hotspur 4/03 - 7/05
Hornblower During the Crisis 1805
Hornblower and the Atropos 12/05 - 1/08
Beat to Quarters (U.K.: The Happy Return) 6/08 - 10/08
Ship of the Line 5/10 - 10/10
Flying Colors 11/10 - 6/11
Commodore Hornblower 5/12 - 10/12
Lord Hornblower 10/13- 5/14
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies 5/1821 - 10/1823
short stories:
The Hand of Destiny, Colliers November 23, 1940.
Hornblower's Charitable Offfering, Argosy (UK) May 1941
Hornblower and His Majesty, Colliers March 1941
See also C.S. Forester The Hornblower Companion, 1964.
George Foy Asia Rip
Coaster
Challenge (12 meters)
Ernest Gann Fiddler's Green, 1950 ( West coast US commercial fishing)
Twilight for the Gods, 1956 (The High and the Mighty goes to sea.
The movie of this one starred Gann's own brigantine.)
(Gann's nautical autobiography Song of the Sirens, 1968, is a good
read too)
Catherine Gavin The Devil in Harbour (1968) (WW I romance, Battle of
Jutland)
Philip Gerard Hatteras Light (lighthouse keeper's story)
Tony Gibbs thrillers:
Dead Run
Landfall
Blood Orange
Running Fix
Guy Gilpatric Glencannon Afloat
The Gentleman with the Walrus Mustache
The Glencannon Omnibus, 1937 (includes Scotch and Water,
Half Seas Over, and Three Sheets in the Wind).
The Second Glencannon Omnibus
The Canny Mr. Glencannon, 1948 (10 short stories)
Action in the North Atlantic, 1943
Glencannon meets Tugboat Annie (1956)
Best of Glencannon, 1968 (22 short stories)
(humorous stories featuring a Scots Chief Engineer on a British
tramp steamer)
William Golding Pincher Martin; The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, 1956
(Torpedoed RN officer washes up on a barren rock in the
middle of the Atlantic. Strange)
Marcus Goodrich Delilah, 1941 (Life on an early US destroyer)
Thomas Haggenn Mr. Roberts, 1946
Harvey Haislip The Prize Master (1959) (Adventures of an American
midshipman during the Revolutionary War)
A Sailor named Jones
The Long Watch
Sea road to Yorktown (1960)
Escape From Java (WW II destroyer crew flees Japanese)
Donald Hamilton Mona Passage
Jan de Hartog (de Hartog sailed as mate in Dutch ocean-going tugboats)
The Captain, 1966 (Dutch salvage tug accompanies WW II
Murmansk convoys)
The Commodore : a novel of the sea, 1986 (The "captain", now 70,
finds himself towing a giant oil rig to Singapore)
The Distant Shore, a story of the sea (1952)
The Lost Sea (about the Zuyder Zee)
The Call of the Sea, 1966 (collection)
Star of Peace : a novel of the sea, 1984 (Aging freighter full of
Jews flees Nazis)
The Trail of the Serpent, 1983 (Escape from the Japanese in
Indonesia during WW II)
Captain Jan, 1976 (Fiction?) (Nautical?)
Sterling Hayden Voyage: a novel of 1896, 1976
(His autobiographical Wanderer is a better book than
Voyage, though not a novel)
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
Max Hennessy The Lion at Sea (WW I naval adventure)
The Crimson Wind (pirates?)
Robert E. Howard Black Vulmea's vengeance & other tales of pirates, 1976
Richard A Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica, or, The Innocent Voyage (pirates
inadvertently kidnap children; made into a movie)
Victor Hugo The Gun (what a loose cannon on deck can do)
Hammond Innes Strode Venturer, 1965
The Wreck of the Mary Deare, 1956
Atlantic Fury, 1962
The Black Tide
Cruise of Danger
The Last Voyage : Captain Cook's Lost Diary, 1979
Wreckers must Breathe
John Jennings The Sea Eagles (Joshua Barney helps win the Revolutionary war)
Geoffry Jenkins A Scend of Sea
The Watering Place of good peace
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Not To Mention the Dog (classic comedy of
a camping trip in a Thames skiff)
Richard Jessup Sailor (20th century merchant marine tale)
Ted Jones The Dog Watch
Alexander Kent (more 1800-period naval action)
the Richard Bolitho series:
Richard Bolitho, Midshipman (1)
Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger (2)
Stand into danger (3)
In gallant company (4)
Sloop of war (5)
To glory we steer (6)
Command a King's ship (7)
Passage to mutiny (8)
Form line of battle! (9)
Enemy in sight! (10)
The flag captain (11)
Signal, close action! (12)
The inshore squadron (13)
A tradition of victory (14)
Success to the brave (15)
Colors aloft! (16)
With all dispatch (18)
Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous, 1896 (filmed in 1937 and 1977)
Michael Kirk (aka Bill Knox)
Salvage Job
Cargo risk
Mayday from Malaga (Nautical?)
Bill Knox Bloodtide
Blueback.
Bombship
Dead man's mooring
Dragonship
Figurehead (Nautical?)
Hellspout (Nautical?)
Live bait
Seafire
Storm Tide
Wavecrest
Whitchrock
Whitewater
O. V. Falck-Ytter Haakon Haakonsen
Dewey Lambdin The King's Coat
The French Admiral
The King's Commission
The King's Privateer
The Gun Ketch
Maurice Larrouy The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport (1918)
Robert Lawson Captain Kidd's cat; being the true and dolorous
chronicle of Wm. Kidd, gent. & merchant of New York,
late captain of the Adventure Galley; of the
vicissitudes attending his unfortunate cruise in
eastern waters, of his incarceration in Newgate Prison,
of his unjust trial and execution, as narrated by his
faithful cat, McDermot, who ought to know. Set down and
illuminated by Robert Lawson. (1956)
Sam Llewellyn Riptide,
Blood Knot, 1991
Sea Story, 1987
Dead Reckoning, 1987
Deadeye
Deathroll
Jack London The Sea Wolf
South Sea Tales, 1939
The Mutiny of the Elsinore, 1914
Tales of the Fish Patrol, 1905 (Oyster pirates on SF bay, lots of
small boat sailing)
John D. MacDonald The Last One Left, 1967
Travis McGee series:
A tan and sandy silence
The dreadful lemon sky
The empty copper sea
The green ripper
Free fall in crimson.
Shades of Travis McGee
MANY more
William McFee (McFee was a marine engineer, his writing is set during the
heyday of steam)
Casuals of the Sea, 1916
Command, 1923
In the First watch, 1946
Richard McKenna The Sand Pebbles, 1962 (US gunboat on the Yangtze River)
W. R. D. McLaughlin Antarctic Raider, 1960 (German surface raider tries to
capture the British and Norwegian whaling fleets during
WW II, author was a sea captain when he wrote book)
Alistar MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses, 1955
South by Java Head
Seawitch
Allan C. McLean Master of Morgana (Scots salmon fisherman solves murder)
Frederick Marryat (Marryat was a British naval officer in the Napoleonic wars,
starting his career on board Lord Cochrane's ship. Lord
Cochrane was the colorful officer whose exploits were later
an inspiration to Forester and O'Brian. So these seem to be
the first such novels, and the only novels of the period
written by a man actually present)
Frank Mildmay
The Kings Own, 1830
Newton Foster; or The Merchant Service, 1832
Peter Simple, 1834 (Based on the exploits of Lord Cochrane
when he commanded frigates Marryat served in)
Jacob Faithful; or The Story of a Waterman, 1834
Mr. Midshipman Easy, 1834 (his best known work, Easy is said
to have been inspired by the adventures Cochrane when he
was a young midshipman)
The Pirate and the Three Cutters, 1836
Snarleyyow or The Dog Fiend, 1837 (Smuggling and Jacobites in
1699, "...in a purely literary sense [his] real
masterpiece..." [The Oxford Companion...])
Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific, 1841 (For
young readers)
The Phantom Ship (The "Lost Dutchman")
Poor Jack (Set in and around the Greenwich naval
pensioners' hospital. Contains the oldest
recorded lyrics to "Spanish Ladies")
Weston Martyr The Southseaman
John Masefield (poet laureate of England, 1930)
Salt-Water Ballads, 1902
The Bird of Dawning, 1903 (clipper adventure; one of the best)
Mainsail Haul, 1905 (short stories)
A Tarpaulin Muster, 1907 (24 short stories)
A Sailor's Garland, 1924
Salt-Water Ballads and Poems, 1944
Sea Poems, 1978
Berkeley Mather The Gold of Malabar
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Redburn
White-Jacket, or, the World in a Man-of-War
Omoo
Typee
James Michener Chesapeake
Tales of the South Pacific (island life in WW II US navy)
Nicholas Monsarrat The Cruel Sea 1951 (WWII convoy escort, and his best by far)
Leave Cancelled, 1945
HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor, 1947
Three Corvettes, 194?
The Master Mariner, Running Proud, 1978
The Master Mariner: Darken Ship; the unfinished novel, 1980
The Master Mariner (time traveler) ?
The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
The Bounty Trilogy:
Mutiny on the Bounty
Men against the Sea, 1934
Pitcairn's Island, 1934
also:
The Hurricane, 1938 (Tahiti)
others
(see also In Search of Paradise, about Nordhoff and Hall)
Eugene O'Neill plays:
The Hairy Ape
Children of the sea
The Long Voyage Home
Bound east for Cardiff
Ile
Ridley Pearson Blood of the Albatross
Henry Plummer The Boy, Me, and the Cat (fictional?)
E. A. Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, ca. 1840. (mutiny
and murder)
D.C. Poyer Hatteras Blue
Bahamas Blue
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, 1921
Patrick O'Brian (arguably the top novelist of life under square sails)
The Golden Ocean, 1957
The Jack Aubrey - Steven Maturin books:
(there is advantage in reading these in order)
Master and Commander, 1969 (1)
Post Captain (2)
H.M.S. Surprise (3)
Mauritius Command (4)
Desolation Island (5)
The Fortune of War (6)
The Surgeon's Mate (7)
The Ionian Mission (8)
Treason's Harbor (9)
The Far Side of the World (10)
The Reverse of the Medal (11)
The Letter of Marque (12)
The Thirteen Gun Salute (13)
The Nutmeg of Consolation (14)
The Truelove (15)
The Wine-Dark Sea, 1993 (16)
C. Northcote Parkinson (more 1800-period naval action)
Devil to Pay, 1973
The Fireship, 1975
Touch and Go, 1977
Dead Reckoning, 1978
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
(and a short history of the Royal Navy, 1776 - 1816)
Howard Pease (for "young" readers)
The tattooed man; a tale of strange adventures,
befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer
"Araby," upon his first voyage from San Francisco to
Genoa, via the Panama canal (1926)
The jinx ship; the dark adventure that befell Tod Moran
when he shipped as fireman aboard the tramp steamer
"Congo", bound out of New York for Caribbean ports (1927)
The ship without a crew; the strange adventures of Tod
Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer "Araby" (1934)
Heart of danger, a tale of adventure on land and sea
with Tod Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer
"Araby," (1946)
Wind in the rigging; an adventurous voyage of Tod Moran
on the tramp steamer "Sumatra," New York to North
Africa (1951)
Night boat, and other Tod Moran mysteries (1942)
Captain of the Araby; the story of a voyage (1953)
Shanghai passage; being a tale of mystery and adventure
on the high seas in which Stuart Ormsby is shanghaied
aboard the tramp steamer "Nanking" bound for ports on
the China coast(1929)
Secret cargo; the story of Larry Mathews and his dog
Sambo, forcastle mates on the tramp steamer "Creole
trader," New Orleans to the South seas. (1931)
Hurricane weather (1936)
Foghorns; a story of the San Francisco water front (1937)
Captain Binnacle (1938)
The black tanker (1941)
Bound for Singapore (1948)
Shipwreck; the strange adventures of Renny Mitchum,
mess boy of the trading schooner "Samarang." (1957)
Dudley Pope (more 1800-period naval action. Pope has also written some naval
history)
Ramage series:
Ramage (1)
Drumbeat (2)
The Triton brig (3)
Governor Ramage, R.N. (4)
Ramage's prize (5)
Ramage and the rebels (9)
The Ramage touch (10)
Ramage's signal (11)
Ramage and the renegades (12)
also:
Buccaneer, 1984
Convoy, 1987
Jonathan Raban Foreign Land (modern cruise around UK)
Thomas Head Raddall Tidefall
Hangman's Beach
Norman Reilly Raine Tugboat Annie, 1934 (The humorous Adventures of the
tug Narcissus and her colorful captain in and around
Puget Sound)
Captain Kidd, 1945 (Fiction?)
Arthur Ransome (nominally juvenile; will appeal to the traditionalist and to
those who like Treasure Island. There is The Arthur Ransome
Society (TARS), for the enthusiasts. There are now several
non-fiction books about all this, too.)
in order, more or less:
Swallows and Amazons, 1930
Swallowdale
Peter Duck
Winter Holiday
Coot Club
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Secret Water
Missee Lee
The Picts and Martyrs
Great Northern
Pigeon Post
Big Six
Coots in the North
(Racunda's Last Cruise is not fiction and is not for children)
Douglas Reeman His Majesty's U-boat
The Greatest Enemy
A Prayer for the Ship
The Last Raider
Send a Gunboat
Luke Rhinehart Long Voyage Back (escape from a nuclear holocaust in a trimaran)
Garland Roark Wake of the Red Witch, 1946 (also on video)
Tales of the Caribbean
The Wreck of the Running Gale, 1953
Roberts, Kenneth Boon Island, 1956 ( Shipwreck on a tiny rock off of the
New England colonies)
Captain Caution, 1945 (American privateers during the
revolutionary war.)
The Lively lady, 1937 (American privateers during the
war of 1812)
Roscovich, Mark The Bedford Incident, 1963 (US destroyer plays nuclear
chicken with a Soviet sub in the Denmark Strait)
Clark Russell (recommended by A. Conan Doyle)
Flying Dutchman, or, The Death Ship, 188?
The Mystery of the Ocean Star, 1891 (short stories)
Round the Galley Fire, 1893
Ocean Free Lance, 1896
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, 1899
Tales of Our Coast, 1901
Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood, 1922
Captain Blood Returns, 1931
Columbus, 1942
The Sea Hawk
Justin Scott The Shipkiller (sailor vs. tanker)
Hank Searls Overboard
Nevil Shute The Trustee from the Toolroom (machinist goes to the South
Seas to salvage a yacht and settle an estate)
Landfall, A Channel Story, 1940
Wilbur Smith Hungry as the Sea
Eye of the Tiger
The Diamond Hunters
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, 1883
Stoppard Rough Crossing (drama; liner?)
Robert Stone Outerbridge Reach, 1992 (modern yachtsman)
Craig Thomas The Sea Leopard (British nuclear sub with sonar "cloaking device")
B. Traven The Death Ship: the Story of an American Sailor, 1934 (Black comedy
about the black gang of a doomed freighter by the mysterious author
of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Antony Trew The Moonraker mutiny (Crew mutinies and abandons freighter on
way to Australia)
The Antonov project (Cold War naval spy story)
Kleber's convoy (U-Boats harry Murmansk bound convoy)
Running wild (Anti-apartheid activists escape S. Africa in
a ketch)
Sea fever (Single-handed round trip yacht race across the
N. Atlantic in winter)
The Zhukov briefing (Soviet sub runs aground off Norway)
F. van Wyck Mason The Manila Galleon (fiction based on Anson's voyage around
the world, 1740-44)
The Cutlass Empire (17th century pirates)
Stars on the Sea (Early American revolutionary war adventure)
Proud New Flags (American Civil War (Confederate) naval
adventure)
Captain Nemesis
Eagle in the Sky
Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, about 1870 (includes lots of
very obsolete biological terminology)
The Mysterious Island (desert island story)
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras
The Blockade Runners
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
Leonard Wibberly Leopard's Prey, 1971 (young adult; a powderboy and pirates)
Richard White Sword of the North (Scots/Norse voyage to New England
in the 13th century)
Simon White The English captain (1977) (Napoleonic wars naval yarn)
His majesty's Frigate (1979) (More Napoleonic Wars Adventure)
Clear for Action (1978) (probably some more of the above)
Sloan Wilson Ice Brothers (1979) (Coast Guard ice trawler on Greenland
patrol during WW II)
John Wingate Below the Horizon
The Sea above Them
John Winton The fighting Temeraire (1971) (British Polaris sub spying in
the Black Sea)
HMS Leviathan (1967) (Jet-age aircraft carrier)
We saw the sea (1960) (WW II Royal Navy comedy)
Richard Woodman (more 1800-period naval action)
Drinkwater series:
Bomb Vessel
A King's Cutter
The Corvette (Arctic Treachery, in U.S.)
An Eye of the Fleet;
A Brig of War;
A Private Revenge
Under False Colours
1805
Baltic Mission
In Distant Waters
others:
Wager
Tea Clippers
Endangered Species
The Darkening Sea
Stuart Woods Blue water Green skipper, 1977
Run before the wind, 1983
Wouk, Herman The Caine Mutiny (1951)
Some America's-Cup-centered novels, whose authors escape me:
"The Black Yacht"
"The Challenge and the Glory"
"Duel"
"Regatta"
August 15, 1994 over 300 titles so far
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George Dinwiddie
JK=>Regrettably, I removed Vincent Bugliosi's book about the South Sea
JK=>island murder and the entry for Farley Mowat because even though the
JK=>books mentioned are good reading they are not fiction. I have my doubts
JK=>about The Boy, Me, and the Cat, but it remains until its fictionality
JK=>can be proved or disproved.
The Boy, Me and the Cat is non-fiction. When we loaned our copy to
my wife's boss, he liked it so much that he was determined to get a
copy. It was out-of-print at the time, but he called the boatyard
mentioned in the book. They gave him the phone number for "the boy"
mentioned in the book, from whom he was able to purchase a copy. The
part that is fiction is the barnyard animals mentioned being hunted.
Actually, these are substitutes for out-of-season game.
George
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Joseph G. McWilliams
>
>Help from you I'd most like to get:
>
>The Sea Chase about a German freighter trying to get home from Asia at
>the start of WW II? As usual, the book was much better than the movie
>but I can't remember the title or author.
>
Sea Chase by Andrew Greer
Anyone interested in compling a Nautical Nonfiction Book List? Some of
the most exciting nautical reading is in nonfiction, like "Grey Seas
Under" by Farley Mowat, one of the best fiction or nonfiction.
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