Lord Ramage is an interesting and likable character. Unlike most of the heroes of the naval fiction about the age of sail, as for example Richard Bolitho, Alan Lewrie, and Jack Aubrey, the fictional character Ramage has an upper-class background…
Lord Ramage is an interesting and likable character. Unlike most of the heroes of the naval fiction about the age of sail, as for example Richard Bolitho, Alan Lewrie, and Jack Aubrey, the fictional character Ramage has an upper-class background…
After a spell on dry land, Lord Ramage and HMS Calypso are ordered by Admiral Lord Nelson to join his fleet at Cadiz in Spain. Ramage joins the fleet after a speedy journey from England (however, Nelson’s journey was even faster). His first mission there…
The ninth novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Maturin/Aubrey saga is set in Malta following the events in The Ionian Mission. Captain Aubrey’s favorite ship, HMS Surprise, is undergoing repairs. However, Malta is swarming with Napoleonic agents, so that Stephen Maturin is kept very busy. And to…
It’s now 1803 and Thomas Kydd, who started his career as a pressed man, now commands a brig-sloop, HMS Teazer. This is an unrated vessel too small to have a place in the line of battle. For Kydd, it, even so, represents…
In this salty nautical fiction novel from the romantic Age of Sail, Margaret Muir introduces Captain Oliver Quintrell, a man with an intriguing background, extensive nautical skills, and a very good head on his shoulders. As we meet him, he…
Richard Woodman’s series of books featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater is among the very best nautical fiction series ever written. This adventure of Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater confronts him with some of the toughest challenges so far. It is now 1807, and while Napoleon is…
This book tells another of the magnificent tales in the saga of Richard Bolitho. For readers of nautical fiction, this is one of the very good series set in the Age of Sail. It is now September 1800. The theme for The Inshore…
The Mutiny on the Bounty is one of the most well known nautical events ever. In a sense, it has become an iconic event, along with the sinking of the Titanic. Several books have been written about it – even poems…
This is the eight book in the Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical fiction novels by Patrick O’Brian. Captain Jack Aubrey has been given the Worcester, a ship of the line of 1842 tons, and is to sail her to The Mediterranean to join the British Naval…
Many things may be said about Dudley Pope’s nautical fiction series from the age of sail, featuring Lord Ramage. What cannot be said is that it is boring! Dudley Pope is a great writer, and his books about Lord Ramage are always full…