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    Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on...
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    maritime and underwater environments or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre. The concept first arose with Jules Verne's classic 1870 novel...
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  • The Good Shepherd is a 1955 British novel about nautical warfare during World War II, by C. S. Forester, exploring the difficulties of the Battle of the...
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    Men's adventure Military fiction Nautical fiction Outdoor literature Picaresque novel Robinsonade Subterranean fiction Spy fiction Swashbuckler Thriller...
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    Odyssey (category Nautical fiction)
    The Odyssey (/ˈɒdɪsi/; Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the...
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  • Sword-and-soul Wuxia Nautical Pirate Robinsonade Spy: fiction involving espionage and establishment of modern intelligence agencies. Spy-Fi: spy fiction that includes...
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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (category Nautical fiction)
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written...
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    Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is...
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    The Little Mermaid (category Nautical fiction)
    ; DeVos, Gail (2001). Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Libraries Unlimited. p. 179. ISBN 1-56308-831-2. "Summary...
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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...
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    Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...
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  • Dudley Pope (category Nautical historical novelists)
    Pope (29 December 1925 – 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical...
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    Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary....
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    The Wreck of the Hesperus (category Nautical fiction)
    equivalent to $760 in 2023.[citation needed] Longfellow combined fact and fiction to create this poem. His inspiration was the great blizzard of 1839, which...
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    Libertatia (category Nautical fiction)
    recorded based on interviews with sailors, or a concocted work of utopian fiction by the author from the start is contested. Libertalia was a legendary free...
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    Der fliegende Holländer (category Nautical fiction)
    Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption...
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    attract a good deal of attention." Expurgation Joseph Conrad's bibliography Nautical terms The forecastle is the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living...
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    Novel (section Genre fiction)
    Children's literature; Young adult fiction Collage novel Gay literature Graphic novel Light novel Nautical fiction Novel in Scotland Proletarian novel...
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    Frederick Marryat (category Nautical historical novelists)
    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...
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    navigator is in charge of maintaining the aircraft or ship's nautical charts, nautical publications, and navigational equipment, and they generally have...
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  • The Wreck of the Zephyr (category Nautical fiction)
    The Wreck of the Zephyr is a children's book written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg, first published by Houghton Mifflin in...
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    Walter Jon Williams (category Nautical historical novelists)
    1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams, in particular, Privateers...
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    Chuck Pfarrer (category American spy fiction writers)
    Killing Che, was released in 2007. Pfarrer's second novel, a work of nautical fiction, was published by the United States Naval Institute Press in April...
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    Ernest K. Gann (category American male non-fiction writers)
    He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation novels include The High and...
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    call science fiction). Works of nautical fiction can also be romances, as the genre often overlaps with historical romance, adventure fiction, and fantasy...
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  • Captain Cat (book) (category Nautical fiction)
    Captain Cat is a 2012 children's picture book by Inga Moore. It is about a sea captain, Captain Cat, who trades goods in exchange for cats, and his ensuing...
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  • nautical fiction and non-fiction, possibly including Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery, which has been described as the first American science fiction novel...
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    Les Écrivains de marine (category Nautical fiction)
    The Écrivains de Marine is a French association bringing together twenty writers with knowledge and practice of the sea. Founded in 2003 by Jean-François...
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  • Zwycięzcy oceanu (category Nautical fiction)
    Zwycięzcy oceanu (Conquerors of the Ocean) is the debut travel-adventure and maritime novel for young adults by Polish writer Władysław Umiński.: 436 : 272 : 392 ...
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  • and English literature, the commercialization of universities, and nautical fiction. Through the publication of his trilogy Les Habits neufs du président...
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