Nautical
A Close Run Thing
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This, the fifteenth of the John Pearce novels, is set in 1796 with Lieutenant Pearce and his companion Samuel Oliphant trying to get back ...Read Review
The Distant Ocean
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After the Battle of the Nile in 1798, Captain Alexander Clay of the frigate Titan was ordered to join a small fleet and sail ...Read Review
Leo, Dog of the Sea (Dog Chronicles)
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Spunky little terrier Leo has been at sea for many voyages during Spain’s Age of Discovery in the early 16th century. Leo ...Read Review
Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail
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Robinson Crusoe is fictional, so Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks begins as a study in English Literature, discussing the author, Daniel Defoe, and his ...Read Review
The Lusitania Sinking: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors
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What more is there to say about the Lusitania, the liner torpedoed off the coast of Ireland in May 1915? Anthony Richards admits that ...Read Review
Honoring the Enemy: A Captain Peter Wake Novel
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U.S. Navy Captain Peter Wake of the Office of Naval Intelligence is tasked with assisting local patriots in Spanish-occupied Cuba in 1898. This ...Read Review
Death Beneath the Waves
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In January 1942, U-124 sets sail toward what are considered to be easy targets—ships paralleling the Eastern Seaboard that have not yet been ...Read Review
Destiny’s Gold (Captain Jane Thorn)
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It’s 1820—trade restrictions in the wake of the War of 1812 have ceased, and Napoleon is safely ensconced on the island of St. ...Read Review
The Conqueror
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Although the novel bears the subtitle “The Thrilling Tale of the King who Mastered the Seas, Rajendra Chola I,” the narrative is told ...Read Review
Fortuna and the Scapegrace: A Dark Comedy South Seas Adventure (The Epic of Didier Rain)
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Didier Rain finds himself in San Francisco in 1850, his clothes in tatters and broke. Discovering a coin, he uses it to pay a ...Read Review