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I'd have to read it again, read it so long ago but I'm sure that Dana's Two Years Before the Mast is still my favorite of this genre. The genre is straight seafaring not Titanic, Lifeboat, The Golden Spruce (where amazing things happen on the water) or non fiction, such as the great Kon-Tiki.

Master and Commander is based on a book, right?

I was raised on the Hornblower books some others-
Moby Dick
Mutiny on the Bounty, of course
Billy Budd
Omoo
The Caine Mutiny...
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Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb is probably the best seafaring series I've ever read.
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Wow! Hadn't though of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy angle!
Brin's Glory Season and Startide Rising have alot to do with the sea! Can't think of many others...
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The Sea Runners, by Ivan Doig, is a good tale about escapees from a 19th century work camp in Alaska canoeing to Oregon.
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Is it fiction? That's what I'm, kinda, aiming for...
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Master and Commander is based on a book, right?
See my 'Patrick O'brian's Aubrey/Maturin Series' thread further down in here. Best seafaring stories ever told!
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danlo wrote:Wow! Hadn't though of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy angle!
Brin's Glory Season and Startide Rising have alot to do with the sea! Can't think of many others...
There's also The Scar by China Mieville. I read that a couple of months ago, and it was pretty damn good.
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Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb is probably the best seafaring series I've ever read.
Absolutely. I hope she goes back to that series someday.

Paul Kearney's The Sea Beggars series is excellent; comprises of "The Mark of Ran" and "This Forsaken Earth."
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Starkin wrote:
Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb is probably the best seafaring series I've ever read.
Absolutely. I hope she goes back to that series someday.

Paul Kearney's The Sea Beggars series is excellent; comprises of "The Mark of Ran" and "This Forsaken Earth."
Wow, I don't understand where the love for this series comes from, I gave up half way through book 2, I was really starting to dislike the main female character, not a patch on her "Farseer" series (IMO of course).

I did like the mad ship figurehead guy in those books, it might be worth me ploughing through the rest of the series just to see what happens to him.
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There's this book called The One Tree. Alot of it centers around an ocean voyage. You might be interested in that one..... :lol: ;)
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There's this forum I help moderate called The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant you might want to check that out! :D But, point taken: that may be why The One Tree is my fav TC book-I have a soft spot for well told sea adventures.
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danlo wrote:that may be why The One Tree is my fav TC book-I have a soft spot for well told sea adventures.
Yes, The One Tree, no matter how many times I read it, will always fascinate me. To be on the sea with Giants- awesome! :D
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