Nautical
The King’s Marauder
The twentieth installment of the Alan Lewrie naval adventures starts in 1807 with our intrepid hero, now a post-captain, recovering…
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed Tudor England
This is the extraordinary tale of a voyage of discovery every bit as epoch-making as those of Spain and Portugal.…
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
Inspired by a 19th-century naval mystery, Valerie Martin has structured an intricate, suspenseful novel about a famous “ghost” ship. The…
Honors Rendered
Editors' choice
In 1889, Lt. Commander Peter Wake is ordered to the Pacific island of Samoa. Trouble is brewing between the German…
Daedalus and the Deep
During the mid-1800s, after the wars between France and England have ended, the HMS Daedalus, led by an erratic captain…
Lord of Darkness
I read quite a bit of science fiction in the 1960-80s, and fondly remember Robert Silverberg’s captivating short stories, novels,…
Rough Passage to London
On April 7, 1814, two American farm boys go out to see, under cover of darkness, a newly built fighting…
Caribbee: A Kydd Sea Adventure
During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Thomas Kydd, aboard HMS L’Aurore, is assigned to the Caribbean and the Leeward Islands station.…
Song of the Mokihana
In this South Sea adventure novel set during World War I, a Chinese-owned sailing vessel is captured by a mixed…
Nanyang
Stewart’s Nanyang is an immense narrative that begins with a pair of young Chinese siblings abducted by a Dutch raiding…
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