Best Sea Stories

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thorold: The book that launched every pirate cliché we know and love
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thorold: Just to save us all clicking on all twenty-odd of them
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thorold: "And good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man."
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thorold: Classic pre-WWI spy story involving lot of small boat sailing in the Frisian islands
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thorold: Early PO'B, a classic shipwreck story
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thorold: Middle-aged engineer becomes action hero in Pacific salvage crisis
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thorold: smuggling on the South coast
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thorold: A bit stodgy for modern tastes, but Marryat is one writer of sea stories who actually served in the Georgian navy
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thorold: Story set on an escort corvette in WWII, obviously written as propaganda, but still a good read.
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thorold: Another early PO'B (pre-Aubrey)
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thorold: The Swallows on the North Sea
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thorold: The Swallows and Amazons go to sea and get caught up in a story inspired by Treasure Island. (Or maybe they made it all up)
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thorold: With Golding at the helm, you know this voyage is not going to be a jolly one
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thorold: Like the film, but even grittier
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thorold: Postmodern noir thriller about salvaging Jesuit treasure off the coast of Spain
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thorold : Classic tale of life as a common sailor in the 19th century, but normally considered as non-fiction