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Do airships count? Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding (4 book complete series)
Someone suggested I read Grunts by Mary Gentle - it's from the perspective of the orcs.
Try anything by Janny Wurts - The Master of Whitestorm (standalone) or The Cycle of Fire (trilogy) has ships, though it isn't particularly military naval.
Passage by Connie Willis - it involves the Titanic (but in a different way) if you are looking for floaty things. It's different.
Someone suggested I read Grunts by Mary Gentle - it's from the perspective of the orcs.
Try anything by Janny Wurts - The Master of Whitestorm (standalone) or The Cycle of Fire (trilogy) has ships, though it isn't particularly military naval.
Passage by Connie Willis - it involves the Titanic (but in a different way) if you are looking for floaty things. It's different.
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This gets rather naval in an untimely fashion:
Neither of my suggestion is swords or sorcery, but they do come close.
West of Eden --The asteroid missed and the dinosaurs lived (but not in North America). Humans still evolved. Dinosaurs are now colonizing North America and a tribe of locals have to deal with the new threat.
Clan of the Cave Bear -life of a Cro-Magnon girl raised by Neanderthals. Warning though, the second book of the series reads more like a Harlequin romance....
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The most memorably terrible book I have ever read.
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I'll digress to recommend Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Internet Archive has 216 offerings
THIS specific printing is a good one because it is clearly scanned and contains the two prefaces. Although some of the more recent printings also include a third preface.
This is a historic journal of a common sailor in the between 1834 and 1836 describing life at sea.
From the preface:
In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative
of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor, before the
mast, in the American merchant service. It is written out from a journal
which I kept at the time, and from notes which I made of most of the
events as they happened; and in it I have adhered closely to fact in every
particular, and endeavored to give each thing its true character. In so
doing, I have been obliged occasionally to use strong and coarse expressions,
and in some instances to give scenes which may be painful to nice
feelings; but I have very carefully avoided doing so, whenever I have not
felt them essential to giving the true character of a scene. My design is,
and it is this which has induced me to publish the book, to present the
life of a common sailor at sea as it really is—the light and the dark
together.
It is a great read, perhaps the more so for being unadorned non-fiction.
Enjoy!
Internet Archive has 216 offerings
THIS specific printing is a good one because it is clearly scanned and contains the two prefaces. Although some of the more recent printings also include a third preface.
This is a historic journal of a common sailor in the between 1834 and 1836 describing life at sea.
From the preface:
In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative
of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor, before the
mast, in the American merchant service. It is written out from a journal
which I kept at the time, and from notes which I made of most of the
events as they happened; and in it I have adhered closely to fact in every
particular, and endeavored to give each thing its true character. In so
doing, I have been obliged occasionally to use strong and coarse expressions,
and in some instances to give scenes which may be painful to nice
feelings; but I have very carefully avoided doing so, whenever I have not
felt them essential to giving the true character of a scene. My design is,
and it is this which has induced me to publish the book, to present the
life of a common sailor at sea as it really is—the light and the dark
together.
It is a great read, perhaps the more so for being unadorned non-fiction.
Enjoy!
A truly great book.I'll digress to recommend Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Internet Archive has 216 offerings
THIS specific printing is a good one because it is clearly scanned and contains the two prefaces. Although some of the more recent printings also include a third preface.
This is a historic journal of a common sailor in the between 1834 and 1836 describing life at sea.
From the preface:
In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative
of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor, before the
mast, in the American merchant service. It is written out from a journal
which I kept at the time, and from notes which I made of most of the
events as they happened; and in it I have adhered closely to fact in every
particular, and endeavored to give each thing its true character. In so
doing, I have been obliged occasionally to use strong and coarse expressions,
and in some instances to give scenes which may be painful to nice
feelings; but I have very carefully avoided doing so, whenever I have not
felt them essential to giving the true character of a scene. My design is,
and it is this which has induced me to publish the book, to present the
life of a common sailor at sea as it really is—the light and the dark
together.
It is a great read, perhaps the more so for being unadorned non-fiction.
Enjoy!
I'll continue the digression with great sailing adventure by a most unexpected author, the mad movie actor Sterling Hayden: Voyage: A Novel of 1896
The Kirkus review is a fun read in itself. VOYAGE | Kirkus Reviews
The Kirkus review is a fun read in itself. VOYAGE | Kirkus Reviews
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This is a very peculiar hard SF trilogy:
No humans! These stories are recreations of Galileo & Newton, Darwin and Freud.
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