I just got a catalog in the mail yesterday right on topic for this thread. Well, at least tangentially related.
Sheridan House: America's Favorite Sailing Books The catalog is called "America's Favorite Sailing Books". 50 pages of sailing books, fiction, non-fiction, educational, biographical, true stores.
And, Painkiller, I like nature hikes, once or twice a year, and the rich again/poor again thing reminds me of what happens to sailors on land, eh?
The Hornblower series is great, I admit it. The catalog lists the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, a series that it says is in the tradition of C.S. Forester.