ALTERNATIVE SWASHBUCKLING

The letter by Capt. Charlie Hentgens (June) was the second mention of the Patrick O’Brian books about Jack Aubrey in SAIL this year. However, the only other mentioned author of similar books was Julian Stockwell. I have read and enjoyed all of the Aubrey series and think it would be a service to your readers to mention some of the other authors of the nautical adventure genre. Interested readers should check out Dewey Lambdin, C. Northcote Parkinson, V.A. Stuart, Frederick Marryat, Richard Woodman, Dudley Pope, Richard Woodman, James Nelson and, the greatest of them all, C.S. Forester and his Horatio Hornblower stories. — David Peterson, Wildwood, MO