Sea Authors

[AllanKP69]

For the real thing, try William Dampier.

This was a new one for me, but these books look to be as close to real life at sea in the 17th century as one can get. Any suggestions on which one to try first?
Tx
Allan

 

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This was a new one for me, but these books look to be as close to real life at sea in the 17th century as one can get. Any suggestions on which one to try first?
Tx
Allan

Hi, William Dampier was a 17th/18th century naturalist, gentleman, adventurer, seaman, pirate and explorer, not an author of some heroic fictional character. It was thanks to him that Alexander Selkirk, the real inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, was saved from his island. His only command for exploring the Southern Ocean (Australia and New Zealand) ended in the wreck of his ship, the "Roebuck". The real thing, thus. His (totally readable) books can be downloaded on Kindle (Amazon).

 

[shipbuilder]

Try this one. It is a Talking Book that runs for ten hours. It can be played on either tablets, laptops or desk computers. It is in Librivox that offers free of charge talking books read by volunteers. They are mainly over 100 years old and out of copyright. If you prefer to read it on an e-reader, you can get it in text via Gutenberg, also free of charge.
https://librivox.org/the-log-of-a-sea-waif-by-frank-thomas-bullen/