![]() ![]() Look to the best mysteries to solve as you lounge by the pool, take a refreshing swim through some historical fiction, or slip off to the cabana with one of our five favorite escapist reads. Sign up for the newsletter.īest books of 2022: See our picks for the 23 books to read this summer or dive into your favorite genre. Join Book Club: Delivered to your inbox every Friday, a selection of publishing news, literary observations, poetry recommendations and more from Book World writer Ron Charles. “ Mutiny on the Bounty,” after all, was a true story. Forester, Arthur Ransome, and Patrick O’Brian. These are the factors that have ensured that tales of men and ships - they were nearly always men - have such a storied literary history, the real-life grist for such authors as Defoe and Melville, C.S. Depravity and violence and hubris and cowardice, yes, but also unimaginable ingenuity and brotherhood and glorious, steely, human will. In few other situations were large groups of human beings placed in such dire conditions against such powerful forces, in isolation, often for years at a time, and nowhere else does the human animal become so revealed. But those men were also privy to an exotic outside world experienced by few others at a time when there were no photos, no phones or even telegraphs, and most people on the planet never traveled farther than a few miles from home. Ships, especially warships, were microcosms of society at large, filled with young boys and teenagers and old men, the uneducated and the highborn, all speaking a particular language. ![]()
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