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Another 2 Vol. set of books that has stuff about the Victorian Era is "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes." There is a lot of stuff about things like the gasogene and why a deal table would be acid stained and what a deal table is.
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They have new covers, so maybe the formatting has been improved. I read two of these years ago, but can't remember which ones. If you get one and the formatting is improved, please let us know. Don |
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Thanks, Dr. Drib. When I get my TBR list just a little smaller I'll let you know.
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If you like salt operas, I also highly recommend the Dudley Pope Ramage books. They're a lot of fun, and since Pope was a naval historian, all of Ramage's exploits have a basis in reality.
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What about the Alan Lewrie Series by Dewey Lambdin? I have never read them. Does anyone have an opinion about them?
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You may like the novels of Frederick Marryat. He joined the RN as a midshipman near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and finished as a frigate captain in 1829.
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I have also liked Stockwin's Kydd series, whose main character starts as a pressed seaman. (Be warned that the plain seamen there do not talk proper English, but utter statements like "you’d better go aft ’n’ ask Mr. Tyrell ter give yer one". This did not add authenticity for me, it rather felt like in a hollywood film which takes place in e.g. France and therefore all characters speak English with a French accent. ;-)
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If you like the Hornblower stories, I can also recommend his other Napoleonic books Death to the French and The Gun.
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He also did a Napoleonic Wars naval novel from the American perspective ("The Captain From Connecticut"). His WW2 era naval books are also good - "The Ship" (about a Leander-class light cruiser ercorting a Malta convoy) and "The Good Shepherd" (about the commander of a U.S.N. North Atlantic convoy escort)
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W.H.G. Kingston wrote some set in the old sailing ship days I believe.
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Yep, over 100 I think. I went through them and took out the gutenberg data etc. some time back. The man certainly wrote a good number of books.
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Dudley Pope's "Ramage" is a damn fine read. Not as well written perhaps as CS Forester or Alexander Kent (Douglas Reeman), but great to read non the less.
I have listened to Dewy Lambin's Lewrie series on unabridged audio to book nine and really enjoyed them. A fair bit more explicit (sex) stuff than others though. I found Patrick O'Brian too difficult to read. I have lost track of how many times I tried to read his Jack Aubry series. Last edited by sabredog; 04-09-2013 at 12:05 AM. |
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