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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.
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.
Historical novelists with novels centered around ship transport and naval battles. Pages in category "Nautical historical novelists" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
The Napoleonic Wars provide the backdrop for The Emperor, The Victory, The Regency and The Campaigners, Volumes 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively of The Morland Dynasty, a series of historical novels by author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The Richard Bolitho series by Alexander Kent novels portray this period of history from a naval perspective.
The best historical novels of 2024 do all this and more, covering many millennia as they take us from ancient Greece to Shakespearean London to Cold War Europe. How are we classifying a period piece?
Argonaut – Mike Nelson's boat in Sea Hunt, 1950s series; USS Appleby – U.S. Navy destroyer in the series Ensign O'Toole, 1962–1963; USS Avington – U.S. Navy Nimitz class carrier in the series Justice League (TV series), episode 34 (october 18, 2003) Batboat – Batman; RMS Queen of Scots (based on the RMS Queen Mary) in The Triangle, 2001
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This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...