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1996: Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. — ISBN 978-1-55750-747-1 — 35132407 (Classics of Naval Literature series; introduction by Joseph H. Alexander) 2001: Prince Frederick, Maryland: Recorded Books. — ISBN 978-0-7887-4879-0 — 48064872 (Audio-10 cassettes) 2006: Princeton, New Jersey: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic ...
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
The Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature is for literature about the United States Navy.The award was planned in 1982 and first issued the next year by the New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States, who administers and chooses the winner which is a significant book on naval history from the prior year.
The Collector's Series, and the Classics Series both comprise 141 books, with 2 differences between them other than the title sequence. The Collector's Series does not contain the book The Captain and the classic series does not contain the book Don't Gimme The Ships. Both of these series comprise books from the original Sea Adventure Series.
Four books in the series. The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. Kenneth Bulmer, writing as Adam Hardy, wrote a series of naval historical novels about a Royal Navy officer called George Abercrombie Fox, set between 1775 and 1801. Gilles Lapouge wrote a novel called La Bataille de Wagram in 1986.
Run Silent, Run Deep and The Wreck of the Memphis were republished in hardcover by the Naval Institute Press as part of its Classics of Naval Literature series while Around the World Submerged, Submarine!, Dust on the Sea, and Cold is the Sea were reprinted in quality paperback editions as part of its Bluejacket Books series
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK.The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O'Brian continued working until his death in 2000.