Favorite Sailing Heroes

Discover the greatest sailing heroes in literature with our list of favorite books. Explore legendary seafarers, epic voyages, and timeless maritime adventures.

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Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

by Patrick O'Brian

"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." —Mary Renault "We've beat them before and we'll beat them …
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H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

by Patrick O'Brian

Capt. Aubrey and his friend Maturin sail to the Indian Ocean to save the British merchant fleet from the French.
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The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

by Patrick O'Brian

During the Napoleonic wars, British naval captain Jack Aubrey, charged with capturing the French islands of Reunion and Mauritius, must first cope with his fellow …
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The surgeon's mate

 

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

 

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Beat to Quarters

by C. S. Forester

With rations running dangerously low, Captain Hornblower fears that the lure of the South Sea islands may entice the crew to mutiny.
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Lord Hornblower

by C. S. Forester

Hornblower is tasked with a dangerous rescue mission in this "enthralling" chapter (New York Times) in C. S. Forester's beloved naval adventure series. Weary of …
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Flying Colours

by C. S. Forester

Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a …
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Commodore Hornblower

by C. S. Forester

These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", …
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Ship of the line

 

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Hornblower and the Hotspur

by C. S. Forester

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age …
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Lieutenant Hornblower

 

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