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A group of girls from a cannibal tribe living in the Amazon rainforest, called the Kanka-bono girls also end up on the ship, eventually having children with sperm obtained from the ship's captain. The deceased Kilgore Trout makes four appearances in the novel, urging his son to enter the "blue tunnel" that leads to the afterlife.
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.
Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by American writer Alexei Panshin.Published in 1968 as an Ace Science Fiction Special, this novel about a shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969.
The latest novel from Native American writer and National Book Award author Louise Erdrich follows the lives of Crystal Frenchette and Kismet Poe, a mother-daughter duo trying to find their way ...
Jenkin’s novel is brilliant, her characters complex and nuanced, and the romance sings. If you love a sickbed scene or you want to know why Jenkins is an icon of the genre, this book is a great ...
The Ship is a morale-booster propaganda novel [1] written by British author C. S. Forester set in the Mediterranean during World War II, and first published in May 1943.It follows the life of a Royal Navy light cruiser for a single action, including a detailed analysis of many of the men on board and the contribution they made.
The White Ship" ("Белый пароход") is a novella written by Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It was first published in 1970 in Novy Mir , [ 1 ] accompanied by a film adaptation of the novel titled The White Ship which was released in 1976.
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a novel by American author and decorated Marine, Karl Marlantes. It was first published by El León Literary Arts in 2009 (in small quantity) and re-issued (and slightly edited) as a major publication of Atlantic Monthly Press [ 1 ] on March 23, 2010.