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Adam, Frank. Henscherin der Meere: Die Britische Flotte zur Zeit Nelson. Hamburg: Koehlers, 1998, 345 pp. Early version of next entry.
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age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Nelson, Horatio, historian, history, historical, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adam, Frank. Hornblower, Bolitho and Company: Krieg unter Segeln in Roman und Geschichte. Frankfort: Ullstein, 1987, 1992, 204 pp. Survey of nautical fiction concentrating on Royal Navy, 1775-1815; Forester, Hardy, Kent, Parkinson, Pope, Woodman, Maynard, O'Brian, Styles, Forrest, Meacham & Meredith; tables of time periods when fictional seamen operated.
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age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , historian, history, historical, Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adams, Charles Francis. Richard Henry Dana: A Biography. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890, 1891.
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nautical fiction, sea fiction , personality, prominent leader, noted person , condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life
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Adams, Max. "Admiral Collingwood: The Real Jack Aubrey?" Traf Chron, 18 (2008): 247-54.
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Collingwood, Cuthbert; leadership; nautical fiction; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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Collingwood, Cuthbert, nautical fiction, sea fiction , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, leadership, leader, command, commander in chief
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Adkin, Mark. The Sharpe Companion: A Detailed Historical and Military Guide to Bernard Cornwell's Bestselling Series of Sharpe Novels. London: HarperCollins, 1998, 2000, 2003, xxii, 322 pp. Richard Sharpe, fiction; 2003 ed: Vol. I: The Early Years, 1777-1808.
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18th century, eighteenth, literature, culture, nautical fiction, sea fiction
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Alderman, Clifford Lindsey. Wooden Ships and Iron Men. New York: Walker, 1964, 134 pp. Nautical fiction; juvenile literature; young English sailor, thence to American navy during War of 1812; based on Samuel Leech, 1798-1848.
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age of sail; condition; juvenile literature; memoir; nautical fiction; Royal Navy; ship; United States Navy; War of 1812;
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age of sail, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , juvenile literature, children's, junior, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of 1812, Anglo-American war, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, impressment, battle, frigate action, campaign, blockade , united states navy, US navy, ship, boat, vessel, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Allen, Jerry. The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad. New York: Doubleday; London: Methuen, 1965, 1967, xvi, 368 pp.
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nautical fiction, sea fiction , merchant marine, officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Allen, Jerry. The Thunder and the Sunshine: A Biography of Joseph Conrad. New York: Putnam, 1958, 256 pp.
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merchant marine, nautical fiction, sea fiction , officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Allin, Lawrence Carroll. "The United States Naval Institute Intellectual Forum of the New Navy, 1873-1889." Ph.D. diss, Maine, Orono, 1976.
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20th C. (1900-1999); association; nautical fiction; naval lore; United States Navy;
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20th century, twentieth, association, society, group, organization, organisation, conference, conference paper, symposium, naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary , nautical fiction, sea fiction , united states navy, US navy
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Amis, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier: On the James Bond Novels of Ian Fleming. New York: NAL; London: Jonathan Cape; London: Pan, 1965, 1966, 159 pp.
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Bond, James, nautical fiction , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , nautical fiction, sea fiction , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Anand, Valerie. The Norman Pretender. New York: Scribner, 1979, 410 pp. Nautical fiction: time of Norman Conquest.
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anglo-saxon, invasion, armada, landing , nautical fiction, sea fiction
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Anderson, Charles Roberts, ed. Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the Frigate United States, with Notes on Herman Melville. Durham: Duke UP, 1937, vi, 143 pp.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Far East; memoir; nautical fiction; personality; United States Navy; voyage;
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19th century, nineteenth, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, united states navy, US navy, voyage, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Anderson, Charles Roberts. Melville in the South Seas. Modern Language Association of America Series. New York: Columbia UP; New York: Dover, 1939, 1966, 522 pp. Details on views of Melville & influence; plagiarism.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Far East; literature; nautical fiction; personality; voyage;
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19th century, nineteenth, literature, culture, nautical fiction, sea fiction , voyage, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, personality, prominent leader, noted person
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Anderson, Charles Roberts. "With Melville in the South Seas." Ph.D. diss, Columbia, 1935.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Far East; nautical fiction; personality; voyage; whaling;
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19th century, nineteenth, nautical fiction, sea fiction , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, whaling, whale, whaleship, whaler, fishing, voyage
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Anderson, Roger Charles. "Naval Warfare in Fiction." MM, 51 (August 1965): 243-52. Imaginary wars, e.g., Dorking, Port Said, War of 1887.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Anglo-German; Imperial Defence; invasion; literature; nautical fiction;
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19th century, nineteenth, nautical fiction, sea fiction , invasion, armada, landing , literature, culture, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia
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Antonov, A.M. "The Birth of Red October." USNIP, 121 (December 1995): 79-81. Late 1950s; K-5 November Class Soviet nuclear submarine.
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Anglo-Russian; Cold War; intelligence; nautical fiction; nuclear ; propulsion ; submarine;
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Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , cold war, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , nuclear , nautical fiction, sea fiction , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, propulsion
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Arditti, Michael. A Sea Change. London: Maia, 2006, 304 pp. Fictional account built around the plight of SS St. Louis, May 1939, enroute from Hamburg to wherever, in search of asylum for 1000 German refugees.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Anglo-German; emigration; nautical fiction; voyage;
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20th century, twentieth, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , emigration, immigration, migration, Diaspora , voyage, nautical fiction, sea fiction
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Arnold, Guy. Hold Fast for England: G.A. Henty, Imperialist Boys' Writer. London: Hamilton, 1980, 195 pp. Juvenile fiction; influential.
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19th C. (1800-1899); 20th C. (1900-1999); education; juvenile literature; maritime history; nautical fiction; personality;
Keywords:
education, educate, training, train, teaching, teach, schooling, school, learning, learn, juvenile literature, children's, junior, nautical fiction, sea fiction , maritime history, naval history , 19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth
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Aspler, Tony. Titanic: A Novel. Toronto: Doubleday, 1989. Nautical fiction; focus on plots.
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nautical fiction, sea fiction , liner, passenger liner, steamship , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Aubin, Penelope. The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lady: Taken from Her Own Memoirs. London: Bettesworth, 1723, 1736, 1739, vi, 282 pp. Fiction; a Crusoe feminized & moralized.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Defoe, Daniel; memoir; nautical fiction; woman;
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18th century, eighteenth, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , defoe, daniel, nautical fiction, sea fiction , woman
| Abbreviations | |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Alb | Albion |
| alt | alternate |
| Am Nep | American Neptune |
| AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
| ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
| BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
| Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
| comp | Compiled by |
| DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| EcHR | Economic History Review |
| ed | editor or edited by |
| EnHR | English Historical Review |
| HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
| HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
| His Res | Historical Research |
| His Tod | History Today |
| Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
| IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
| IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
| IHR | International History Review |
| intro | introduction |
| J Am His | Journal of American History |
| J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
| JBS | Journal of British Studies |
| J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
| J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
| JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
| J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
| J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
| J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
| JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
| J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
| JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
| J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
| J Wor His | Journal of World History |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror |
| Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
| NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| Nav Rev | Naval Review |
| NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
| Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
| NIP | Naval Institute Press |
| Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
| Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
| P & P | Past and Present |
| Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
| trans | translated by |
| UP | University Press |
| USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
| Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
| War & Soc | War and Society |
| War in His | War in History |
| W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
| WSS | World Ship Society |