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An ocean (from Greek Ωκεανός, Okeanos (Oceanus)) is a large body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface (an area of some 361,000,000 square kilometres (139,000,000 sq mi)) is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is...
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Moby-Dick is a classic novel published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. Originally misunderstood by contemporary audiences and critics, Moby-Dick is now often referred to as "The Great American Novel" and is considered one of the...
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- 1851
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- Oct 18, 1851
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- 21278
Master and Commander
Master and Commander is a historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. First published in 1969 (US) (1970 in UK), it is first in the Aubrey-Maturin series of stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin.
The story starts out on...
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- 1970
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- 1970
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon...
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- 1952
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The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea (1897) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major (middle) period; others have placed it as the best...
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The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them....
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- 1904
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Billy Budd
Billy Budd is a novella begun around 1886 by American author Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891 and not published until 1924. The work has been central to Melville scholarship since it was discovered in manuscript form among...
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Nostromo
Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.
Conrad sets his novel in the mining town of...
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- 1904
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The Mauritius Command
The Mauritius Command is a historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. It is fourth in the series of stories that follow the partnership of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin. It retells in fictional form the real campaign...
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Omoo
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny...
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The Unknown Shore
The Unknown Shore is a novel published in 1959 by Patrick O'Brian. It is the story of two friends, Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow who sail aboard HMS Wager as part of Anson's 1740 expedition. The midshipman Byron and somewhat unworldly surgeon's mate...
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- Feb 1976
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- 1959
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- 612813
Lieutenant Hornblower
Lieutenant Hornblower (published 1952) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester, ISBN 1-85998-976-4. It is the second book in the series chronologically, but the seventh by order of publication.
The book is unique in the series in...
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- 1952
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- 1952
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
Hornblower and the Hotspur (published 1962) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester.
It is the third in the series, following Lieutenant Hornblower.
With the Peace of Amiens under strain and war with France under Napoleon Bonaparte...
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- 1962
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Lord Hornblower
Lord Hornblower (published 1946) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester.
In 1814, Hornblower is delegated to deal with the Flame, a brig full of mutineers off the French coast, near the mouth of the Seine. It is a tricky situation...
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- 1946
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Redburn
Redburn: His First Voyage is a novel by Herman Melville published on September 29, 1849, by Richard Bentley in London and on November 14, 1849, by Harper & Brothers in New York City.
The author returned to the tone of his first novels, Typee (1846)...
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The Secret Sharer
"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1909, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1910, and as a book in the short-story collection Twixt Land and Sea (1912). It contains a theme typical for Conrad: a solitary character...
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- 1993
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- 1912
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- 746973
Kydd
Kydd, first published in 2001, is a Historical sea novel by Julian Stockwin. This first instalment in Julian Stockwin's series of novels about the English navy tells the story of young Kydd, who is pressed into service on a British ship in 1793.
The...
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- Apr 2001
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Dark Watch
Dark Watch is a novel by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. It was published in 2005 and is the third installment in The Oregon Files series.
It takes place with the Corporation, with its leader Juan Cabrillo and his band of mercenaries aboard their...
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- 2005
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Typhoon
Typhoon is a novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine January to March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902 and was published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in...
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- 1902
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Storm Warning
Storm Warning is a novel by Jack Higgins.
Storm Warning was the follow up novel to the highly successful 1975 bestseller The Eagle Has Landed.
Higgins takes to the sea in this wartime thriller. Matching the standard of his novels of this period. The...
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- Aug 9, 1976
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The Ship
The Ship is a novel written by 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...
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Flying Colours
Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C.S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in...
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- 1938
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The Frozen Deep
The Frozen Deep was a play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins along with the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens in 1856. Dickens's hand was so prominent -- besides acting in the play for a number of...
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- 1866
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HMS Surprise
HMS Surprise is the 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. It is third in the series of stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin.
Captain Jack Aubrey is charged with carrying a British ambassador to the East...
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- 1973
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- 1973
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Post Captain
Post Captain is the 1972 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. It is second in the series of stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin. It has been described as Patrick O'Brian's tribute to Jane Austen with part of it...
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- 1972
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- 1972
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Desolation Island
Desolation Island, (1978) is the fifth historical novel by Patrick O'Brian set prior to the War of 1812.
Jack Aubrey has been ashore for a while and is getting into difficulties due to his belief in the honesty of others in business and cards....
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- 1978
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The Fortune of War
The Fortune of War, (1979) is a historical novel set during the War of 1812 and written by British author Patrick O'Brian.
Set during the War of 1812, The Fortune of War contains lightly fictionalized accounts of the battles between HMS Java and USS...
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- 1979
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- 1979
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The Ionian Mission
The Ionian Mission, (1981) is a historical novel by naval author Patrick O'Brian in the continuing series about Jack Aubrey and sea surgeon and friend Stephen Maturin.
The book opens with Jack, Pullings and Mowett aboard HMS Worcester waiting for...
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- 1981
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The Far Side of the World
The Far Side of the World (1984) is an historical novel and tenth in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1984. The novel provided part of the title and some of plot-structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and...
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- 1984
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The Reverse of the Medal
The Reverse of the Medal, (1986) is a historical novel and eleventh in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1986.
In July 2009, Russell Crowe told the Associated Press that this book would make up the bulk of a...
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- 1986
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The Letter of Marque
The Letter of Marque, (1988) is a historical novel and twelfth in the Aubrey-Maturin series written by British author Patrick O'Brian.
In The Letter of Marque, Aubrey, now a civilian, prepares the Surprise to sail as a privateer. The term "Letter of...
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- 1988
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The Thirteen-Gun Salute
The Thirteen Gun Salute, (1989) is the thirteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. This first edition bears this title, whereas later issues have used The Thirteen-Gun Salute featuring a hyphenated title.
Immediately...
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- 1989
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The Commodore
The Commodore (1995) is a further historical novel entry in the Aubrey-Maturin series of naval stories by Patrick O'Brian. Set in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars, O'Brian takes the narrative further across the globe than other in this genre. The...
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- 1995
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Clarissa Oakes
Clarissa Oakes (titled The Truelove in the U.S.A.), (1993) is an historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars written by Patrick O'Brian. It again features the duo, "Lucky" Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and companion Stephen Maturin....
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- 1993
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Sacred Stone
Sacred Stone is the second book in The Oregon Files series of novels by best-selling author Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo. It was released on October 5, 2004 by Berkley.
The main character, Juan Cabrillo, is the captain of the Oregon, an ultramodern...
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- 2004
The Ebb-Tide
The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette (1894) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. It was published the same year Stevenson died.
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- 1894
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Moran of the Lady Letty
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Eye of the Albatross
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The corvette
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Beneath the aurora
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The flying squadron
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Ebb tide
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The East Indianman
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All the brave fellows
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The blackbirder
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Lords of the ocean
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Sea of grey
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Oceans
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Fire in the Turtle House
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