nautical fiction

His career inspired a number of writers of nautical fiction.

The book is unusual in that the hero is an ordinary pressed man, not an officer as is most common in nautical fiction.

His experiences as a fisherman, skipper and sailor, all contributed storylines and depth to his nautical fiction.

Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the most successful authors to explore the genre of nautical fiction, often compared to Patrick O'Brian.

Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, Costello specialized in nautical fiction, but made at least one early contribution to the genre later called prehistoric fiction with his Sure-Dart of 1909.

Richard Bolitho, Midshipman is a novel in the Bolitho series, nautical fiction set in the Royal Navy of the late 18th century by Douglas Reeman writing under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.

French historian Frank Lestringant has said: "The nautical fiction of Le Testu fulfilled the conditions of a technical instrumentality, while giving to King Henry II and his minister, Admiral Coligny, the.