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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is ...
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 Coral Island Title page, illustrated 1893 edition of The Coral Island Author R. M. Ballantyne Language English Genre Adventure novel Publisher T. Nelson & Sons Publication date 1857 Media type Print (Hardback & paperback) Text The Coral Island at Wikisource The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean is an 1857 novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of ...
Sea stories and children's literature. Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS [1] (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) [2] was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi- autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The ...
George Lewis Becke Born (1855-06-18) 18 June 1855 Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Died 18 February 1913 (1913-02-18) (aged 57) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Known for short story writer and novelist Spouse Fanny Sabina Long Children Nora, Niya, Alrema George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke ; 18 June 1855 – 18 February 1913) was at the turn of the nineteenth century, the most ...
The South Sea Company was created in 1711 to reduce the size of public debts, but was granted the commercial privilege of exclusive rights of trade to the Spanish Indies, based on the treaty of commerce signed by Britain and the Archduke Charles, candidate to the Spanish throne during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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.
White Shadows in the South Seas (1919) Mystic Isles of the South Seas (1921) Atolls of the Sun (1922; Betty and Nancy Debenham Motor-Cycling for Women (1928) [6] Rebecca West (1892–1983) Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) – an 1,181-page look at Yugoslavia before World War II. Freya Stark (1893-1993) The Valleys of the Assassins (1934)