THE LIVING CHART

Georeferenced narratives, sailed on the map.
LIVE1800–1817

Aubrey’s World

Patrick O’Brian
Napoleonic-era naval fiction across the Mediterranean and beyond, sailed true to the charts Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin actually crossed.
21 volumes charted
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LIVE1794–1823

Hornblower

C. S. Forester
The blockade of Brest and the wars that followed — a parallel naval saga, charted on the same living engine.
8 volumes charted
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Which adventure next?the charts are built either way — the order is yours

IN PREPARATION1914–17

Shackleton’s Endurance

Ernest Shackleton
One continuous, escalating voyage — the Weddell Sea drift, the boat journey, the crossing of South Georgia.
single voyage
IN PREPARATION1768–79

Cook’s Voyages

James Cook
Three Pacific voyages by a captain who was himself a master cartographer — unusually chart-rich to mine.
3 voyages
IN PREPARATION1772–1815

Bolitho

Alexander Kent
A parallel age-of-sail saga on the same charts and the same era — the next series after Hornblower.
~28 novels
IN PREPARATIONNapoleonic era

Kydd

Julian Stockwin
A sailor's rise through the ranks of the Georgian navy, from the lower deck to command.
~25 novels