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In 1998, the book was reprinted by Llewellyn Publishing, being retitled The Love Boats: Above and Below Decks with Jeraldine Saunders, and was toted as The Real Life Story of the Creator of "The Love Boat". The book was expanded upon with more stories from Saunders' career as a cruise ship director.
The Captain (novel) The Captain from Connecticut; Captain Jan; Captains Courageous; The Caribbean Cruise Caper; Cat O'Nine Tails (novel) The Cat's Table; The Cheyne Mystery; Corby Flood; The Crossing (Miller novel) The Cruel Sea (novel) The Cruise of the Dazzler; The Cruiser
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.
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.
Reviews for A Thousand Ships were generally positive, with reviewers praising the writing style and the feminist recentering of classic myths.Publishers Weekly called the novel "an enthralling reimagining" and wrote "Haynes shines by twisting common perceptions of the Trojan War and its aftermath in order to capture the women’s experiences". [10]
Redburn: His First Voyage [1] is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks.
The Star of the Sea of the title is a famine ship, making the journey from Ireland to New York.Aboard are hundreds of refugees, many from humble and desperate backgrounds. Key protagonists are David Merridith Lord Kingscourt, his wife Laura, their servant Mary Duane, the ship's captain Josias Lockwood, a friendless Irishman named Pius Mulvey, and American journalist Grantley Dixo
Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter, telling the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German passenger ship. . The large cast of characters includes Germans, Mexicans, Americans, Spaniards, a group of Cuban medical students, a Swiss family, and a Sw