For fiction, the Aubry-Maturin series, by Patrick O'Brien, 20 novels published between 1969-2004. Follows the naval career of Jack Aubry and his friend Dr. Maturin before, during, and after the Napoleonic Wars. The movie Master and Commander is of course based on these novels. For a more accessible series, the Hornblower novels by C.S. Forester. For non-fiction, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, Vol. 2 (1649-1815) by N.A.M Rogers.
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Six Frigates is an amazing book about the founding of the US navy and the 6 original Frigates that were built to form it, including the USS Constitution.
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The master and commander series. Thereās a lot more than the movie though it was excellent as well.
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Master and Commander, fictional but apparently highly realistic. As you get more into the book, it gets exponentially more interesting. ALSO, I highly recommend you try the game SailWind! Most underrated sailing game ever.
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Hornblower series of books, there is also a very good tv series with 8 episodes. A must watch/read for all age of sail geeks P.s the carachter and story is fictional but set in a historical background with real historical events and battles
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āTo Rule the Wavesā, which is a history of the Royal Navy from the 1500s through the Trafalgar era and a little bit through the Second World War, is exactly what youāre looking for Enigma, and itās entertaining to read as well
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Black Flags, Blue Waters is a pretty good sum up of the history of the Caribbean pirates. Absolutely insane history. There were lots of things in there that you don't glean from movies and videogames. Some of it quite hard to believe, but it does a good job of shaking out the fact from the mythology.
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They are kind of fictional but all of the Patrick OāBrian books including Master and Commander the Far Side of the World which the movie was based on. Very good books. Very accurate.
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A History of the British Merchant Navy vol. 1: Neptune's Trident by Richard Woodman, can be a little dry at times but an excellent series of books covering the British age of sail merchant navy.
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Six Frigates by Ian W Toll. It's about the US navy in its infancy. Also, I've read 3 books of his about WW2 in the Pacific. I'd highly recommend all of them, too.
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The Dangerous Voyages & Bold Assaults of Captain Bartholomew Sharpe by Basil Ringrose. If you're into Pirate history this is an awesome book for you! First off, it was written by an actual pirate, (a privateer turned buccaneer), named Basil Ringrose. It covers the not so often talked about First Pacific Adventure, and it's pages hold so many in depth details about life as a member of a pirate crew as it's essentially part narrative, part journal, part ships log.
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The Wager by David Grann. Uses historical accounts of the mutuny on the Wager in 1770. To make a "dramatised documentary" if you will. So dont know if it fits your non fiction criteria. But its filled with facts and anecdotes of navy life in the age of sail.
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Horatio Hornblower, Jack Aubrey-Stephan Maturin, and Alan Lewrie series
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Horatio Hornblower series of books by C.S. Forester. Set during the Napoleonic Wars. 11 books in total.
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I donāt know about non-fiction but the Aubrey Maturin series (Master and Commander is the first book.) and the Hornblower series are both fantastic and have great renditions on Audible. (Read by Patrick Tull and Christian Rodska respectively.)
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Patrick o Brian's books, and then the hornblower series books. For napoleonic period soldering, note sail, but army read Sharpe.
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"The Rise Of An Early Modern Shipping Industry - Whitby's Golden Fleet, 1600-1750" - I was fascinated. Captain Cook's fleet were Whitby colliers!
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I donāt know about nonfiction but im on my third reading of the aubrey /maturin series š
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I'm not sure about books but I would totally have the movie Master and Commander on perpetual loop while playing this!
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Enigma
I have become horribly addicted to the Age of Sail. Curious what non-fiction Age of Sail books do people like? Looking to sink the teeth deep š
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