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Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
James Cook
British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
Herman Melville
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
Emilio Salgari
Italian writer
William Dampier
British pirate and explorer (1651-1715)
Matthew Flinders
English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)
Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Frederick Marryat
British naval officer and novelist (1792–1848)
Peter Benchley
American author (1940–2006)
John D. MacDonald
American writer (1916–1986)
Richard Henry Dana
American author and lawyer (1815–1882)
Joshua Slocum
American navigator and maritime writer (1844-1909)
Johann David Wyss
Swiss writer (1743-1818)
Francis Chichester
New Zealand yacht racer (1901–1972)
Nicholas Monsarrat
British writer (1910-1979)
Valentin Pikul
Russian writer (1928-1990)
Alexey Novikov-Priboy
Russian writer (1877-1944)
Henri Queffélec
French writer (1910–1992)
Giorgos Leonardos
Greek writer
William Falconer
British writer and poet
Robin Knox-Johnston
English yacht racer
Konstantin Staniukovich
Russian writer (1843–1903)
Bernard Moitessier
French boat navigator and writer (1925–1994)
Alan Villiers
Australian writer (1903-1982)
Ben Carlin
Australian engineer and adventurer (1912-1981)
Robin Lee Graham
American sailor
John Voss
Canadian writer (1858–1922)
Frank Thomas Bullen
British novelist (1857-1915)
Anthony Bailey
British writer and art historian (1933-2020)
Eric de Bisschop
French sailor (1891–1958)
Augusto Vittorio Vecchi
Italian writer (1842-1932)
Tami Oldham Ashcraft
American sailor and author
Édouard Corbière
French sailor, shipowner, journalist and writer (1793–1875)
Tony Bullimore
British yacht racer (1939-2018)
Thomas Nickerson
American sailor and author (1805-1883)
Eric Newby
British writer (1919–2006)
George Lewis Becke
Australian short-story writer and novelist
Irving Johnson
American sailor (1905-1991)