Captain Richard Martin Woodman retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career. Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series is often compared to the work of the late Patrick O'Brian. Woodman is the author of some two dozen nautical novels, as well as several nonfiction books. Unlike many other modern naval historical novelists, such as C.S. Forester or O'Brian, he has served afloat. He went to sea at the age of sixteen as an indentured midshipman and spent eleven years in command. His experience ranges from cargo-liners to ocean weather ships and specialist support vessels to yachts, square-riggers, and trawlers. Said Lloyd's List of his work: "As always, Richard Woodman's story is closely based on actual historical events. All this we have come to expect—and he adds that special ambience of colourful credibility which makes his nautical novels such rattling good reads."
Nautical novelist Richard Woodman arrives in New World ports with
the first three of 14 installments in the Nathaniel Drinkwater
series, previously released in the U.K. between 1981 and 1983 and
compared by critics there to C. S. Forester's Hornblower saga. Part
of the Mariner's Library Fiction Classics, An Eye of the Fleet, A
King's Cutter and A Brig of War are set in the late 18th Century
and find hero Drinkwater caught up in revolutions on both sides of
the Atlantic. Those looking for high seas action and historical
intrigue are in luck but these are strictly for devotees of the
genre.
*Publishers Weekly*
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