Books of the Sea
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Corpsey
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Golding did a trilogy of nautical novels, which I've not read, although I have seen a TV adaptation of them featuring Benedict cumberbatch
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A Wizard of Earthsea isn't quite the same thing but there is a lot of sailing in it
There was that recent novel about whale hunting and cabin boy rape which was adapted for BBC too
To the Ends of the Earth - Wikipedia
A Wizard of Earthsea isn't quite the same thing but there is a lot of sailing in it
There was that recent novel about whale hunting and cabin boy rape which was adapted for BBC too
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
The Old Man and the Sea, of course
The Odyssey, natch
The Tempest (kind of, although there isn't much actually sea shit in it)
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The Odyssey, natch
The Tempest (kind of, although there isn't much actually sea shit in it)
A High Wind in Jamaica (novel) - Wikipedia
william_kent
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B.S. Johnson's Trawl
3 weeks of stream of consciousness on a trawler, dredging up memories of failed relationships, etc
3 weeks of stream of consciousness on a trawler, dredging up memories of failed relationships, etc
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Couldn't get into this one. Response ranged from sympathy for the fish to impatience with the old man.
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Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle
A massive, sprawling affair where I learnt, and promptly forgot, more than I ever needed to know about coinage, promissory notes, the origins of capitalism and fiat, the grisly experiments of the Royal Society, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, Alchemy, non-conformism, tantric techniques involving prostrate massage, the great fire of London, condoms made of sheep intestines, the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, symbolic logic, the bloodlines of the rulers of 17th century Europe, etc.,
but huge chunks of the text involve various journeys by sea, naval battles instigated by privateers, capture by Barbary pirates, a heist intercepting Spanish gold* from the ships conveying it from the New world, the Pirate Queen Kottakka and her predilections, etc.,
*maybe it was SOLOMON'S gold! In Alchemy that is important, especially when it involves the Trial of the Pyx
not advertised as a "book of the sea" and there is much else in it's 3000+ pages, but it is a seafaring novel for what seems about a 1000 of those
not sure I can recommend it unless you are prepared for a massive "nerd out"
edit: a sort of prequel to Cryptonomicon, a book which had its origins in a article about undersea cabling for data transfer
A massive, sprawling affair where I learnt, and promptly forgot, more than I ever needed to know about coinage, promissory notes, the origins of capitalism and fiat, the grisly experiments of the Royal Society, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, Alchemy, non-conformism, tantric techniques involving prostrate massage, the great fire of London, condoms made of sheep intestines, the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, symbolic logic, the bloodlines of the rulers of 17th century Europe, etc.,
but huge chunks of the text involve various journeys by sea, naval battles instigated by privateers, capture by Barbary pirates, a heist intercepting Spanish gold* from the ships conveying it from the New world, the Pirate Queen Kottakka and her predilections, etc.,
*maybe it was SOLOMON'S gold! In Alchemy that is important, especially when it involves the Trial of the Pyx
not advertised as a "book of the sea" and there is much else in it's 3000+ pages, but it is a seafaring novel for what seems about a 1000 of those
not sure I can recommend it unless you are prepared for a massive "nerd out"
edit: a sort of prequel to Cryptonomicon, a book which had its origins in a article about undersea cabling for data transfer
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
i love fish so much. the fish that swims but also the fish that is wrapped in a newspaper. i love fisherman as well, the paradigmatic ones, with big white beards and who are men of few words. the book is about such a fisherman, his love for dolphins, about the sea of marmara.