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What are some good novels set in the Colonial era? Currently reading Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell and so far pretty good. I was looking for more stuff around that time period. Especially interrsted some novels dealing with the Carribean, if any exist

>> No.20294110

>>20293891
Rudyard Kipling - Kim

>> No.20294184

>>20293891
I love the 1700s so much. Something about it just really appeals to me
>modern yet still medieval in many ways
>Colonial frontiers to explore and adventure in
>Golden age of sailing
>World is interconnected, but not globalized

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>>20294184
bit earlier than the 1700s but Don Quixote

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anyone know anything that isn't heart of darkness with "augirre:the wrath of god" vibes? like 15-1700s era soldiers hopelessly trapped in an exotic and alien environment slowly wearing away from environmental conditions and skirmishes with vicious cannibals, perhaps even something that captures that fever-dreamish feel as the characters health and morale degrades until they are barely clinging to life? can be fiction or non fiction memoirs or something like that

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Any good pirate books?

>> No.20295352

>>20295136
Captain Blood

>> No.20295391

>>20294184
Same here. Although we do make it more romantic than it really was, but something sticks out about that era to me. I think one thing that sticks out is the Republic of Pirates and their breaking off from old governments and becoming the first true 'free' men.