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William Clark Russell from Who-When-What Book, 1900. William Clark Russell (24 February 1844 – 8 November 1911) was an English writer best known for his nautical novels . At the age of 13 Russell joined the United Kingdom's Merchant Navy , serving for eight years.
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 main character has been described as an anti-hero. [3]Gwyneth Jones criticized the series as "repetitive and formulaic", with "some of the least scientific science fiction, and the least convincing alien monsters (giant spacefaring goldfish), of modern times", noting that nonetheless the series "rolls on, from one dreadful humiliation to the next, with occasional bursts of brilliant action ...
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.
The Tide Child trilogy is a series of fantasy novels by R. J. Barker.It comprises The Bone Ships (2019), Call of the Bone Ships (2020), and The Bone Ship's Wake (2021). The first book in the trilogy won the 2020 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
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
The novel was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, [3] The Independent [4] and The Guardian. [5] In his Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald (2004), Peter Wolfe characterised the novel as "a pocket epic, packing into 141 pages the piecemeal dissolution of a way of life". [6]
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]