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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 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.
Hoptoad – from the novel "Pippi in the South Seas" by Astrid Lindgren, 1948; Speķa lode- from the novel series mežonīgie pīrāgi by māris putniņš; Ilya Podogin – Soviet SSN, Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995; USS Independence – fictional Wasp-class amphibious assault ship where a large part of The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place ...
As background to his later sea-going novels, O'Brian did claim to have had limited experience on a square-rigged sailing vessel, as described within his previously-quoted 1994 essay: The disease that racked my bosom every now and then did not much affect my strength and when it left me in peace (for there were long remissions) sea-air and sea ...
Before embarking on writing, he had a career sailing in the French, then the British, merchant marine. Of his 19-year merchant-marine career, about half that time was spent actually at sea. Conrad wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. 1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway This article is about the novella by Ernest Hemingway. For other uses, see The Old Man and the Sea (disambiguation). The Old Man and the Sea Original book cover Author Ernest Hemingway Language English Genre Literary fiction Publisher Charles Scribner's ...
Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (/ ˈ m ɒ n s ə r æ t / [1] 22 March 1910 – 8 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–1945), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.