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British Navy Books
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Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,579 ratings — published 1969
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,447 ratings — published 1973
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,271 ratings — published 1972
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,563 ratings — published 1952
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.17 — 209,310 ratings — published 2023
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,043 ratings — published 1962
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,311 ratings — published 1950
Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,760 ratings — published 1938
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,570 ratings — published 1999
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin, #13)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,336 ratings — published 1989
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,164 ratings — published 1980
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,075 ratings — published 1981
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,385 ratings — published 1978
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,750 ratings — published 1983
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,189 ratings — published 1979
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.50 — 12,052 ratings — published 1988
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,720 ratings — published 1984
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,051 ratings — published 1986
Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 )
by (shelved 3 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,294 ratings — published 1937
Stand into Danger (Richard Bolitho, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,862 ratings — published 1979
Form Line of Battle (Richard Bolitho, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,813 ratings — published 1969
A Naval History of Great Britain: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Vol. 6: 1812-1827 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
The Naval History of Great Britain, 1808-1811: During the French Revolutionary and Napolenonic Wars, Volume 5: 1808–1811 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003
The Flag Captain (Richard Bolitho, #13)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,726 ratings — published 1971
To Glory We Steer (Richard Bolitho, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,337 ratings — published 1968
Cross of St. George (Richard Bolitho, #24)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.17 — 955 ratings — published 1996
Colours Aloft! (Richard Bolitho, #18)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,211 ratings — published 1986
Sloop of War (Richard Bolitho, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,620 ratings — published 1971
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,296 ratings — published 1957
The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin, #17)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,600 ratings — published 1994
The Truelove (Aubrey & Maturin, #15)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,089 ratings — published 1991
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,424 ratings — published 1977
The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin, #19)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,818 ratings — published 1998
Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,601 ratings — published 1946
Commodore Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,496 ratings — published 1945
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,582 ratings — published 1993
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,498 ratings — published 1991
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,403 ratings — published 1996
A Battle Won (Charles Hayden, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,458 ratings — published 2010
Artemis (Kydd Sea Adventures, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,583 ratings — published 2002
H.M.S. Cockerel (Alan Lewrie, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,790 ratings — published 1995
Jester's Fortune (Alan Lewrie, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,359 ratings — published 1999
King's Captain (Alan Lewrie, #9)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,354 ratings — published 2000
The Captain's Vengeance (Alan Lewrie, #12)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,040 ratings — published 2004
A King's Commander (Alan Lewrie, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,571 ratings — published 1997
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey & Maturin, #21)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,047 ratings — published 2004
The King's Commission (Alan Lewrie, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,159 ratings — published 1991
Havoc's Sword (Alan Lewrie, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,118 ratings — published 2003
The French Admiral (Alan Lewrie, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,235 ratings — published 1990
Ramage (Lord Ramage #1)
by (shelved 2 times as british-navy)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,643 ratings — published 1964
“The seamen rarely depicted themselves or their companions as agents of an imperial system. They were consumed with their own daily struggles, ambitions, and ultimately with their own survival. It was precisely such unthinkable complicity that allows empires to endure. Indeed, these imperial structures require it: thousands and thousands of ordinary people, innocent or not, serving—and even sacrificing themselves for—a system so many of them rarely question.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“In Frederick Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy Jack's father, Mr. Easy, became a(n) ____________ as it was the very best profession a man can take up who is fit for nothing else. ”
― Mr. Midshipman Easy
― Mr. Midshipman Easy
