James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851 is probably better known for his frontiersmen novels such as ‘The Last of the Mohicans.

However, he also wrote factual books and novels about the age of sail.

Many of his novels are not copyright in many countries and some are available as free eBooks in the online store.

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Year	Book	Comment
	The Pilot	About the life of a naval pilot during the Revolution of 1775-1783
	The Red Rover	A Rhode Island pirate captures a British frigate
	Homeward Bound: Or The Chase: A Tale of the Sea	The story of an American packet ship
1799	The Wing-and-Wing: Or Le Feu-Follet	About a French privateer off the Italian coast in 1799
1745	The Two Admirals	Set in 1745 during the Jacobite rebellion
	Jack Tier: or The Florida Reef (aka Captain Spike: or The Islets of the Gulf)	A Merchant Brig seeks to avoid a Revenue cutter and a sloop-of-war

AOS Naval Non Fiction

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Year	Book	Comment
	The History of the Navy of the United States of America	A history of the US Navy (Up to 1839)
	Old Ironsides	A history of the American frigate USS Constitution (Up to 1835)
	Ned Myers: or Life before the Mast	A biography of a shipmate of Cooper's during the 1813 naval campaign in Upper Canada
	Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers	The careers, battles, commands, and characters of Bainbridge, Somers, Shaw, Shubrick, and Preble.

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Year	Book	Comment
	The Sea Lions, or, The Lost Sealers	Two schooners sealing are caught in the ice.
	The Water-Witch: Or the Skimmer of the Seas	A story of smuggling in the New York/New Jersey area, set around 1711

Series: Miles Wallingford
	Afloat and Ashore: or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford	Miles Wallingford runs away to sea to embark on a career as a merchant sailor in the Pacific
	Miles Wallingford	Continues the adventures Miles Wallingford, this time set in the Atlantic

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