Books like Artemis by Julian Stockwin

Captain Jack Aubrey and ship surgeon Stephen Maturin begin their storied partnership on a Royal Navy man‑of‑war during the Napoleonic Wars, offering an intimate look at life aboard ship.

An adventurous English hero risks his life during the Reign of Terror to rescue French refugees and expose royalist conspirators, capturing the perilous spirit of the early French Revolution.

The sixth adventure of Captain Jack Aubrey and chief ship doctor Stephen Maturin, set during the War of 1812.

A young boy rises from poverty to become a pioneering sailor, charting a record‑breaking voyage around Cape Horn aboard the famed clipper ship Flying Cloud.

Two unlikely companions—wigmaker Tom Kydd and runaway aristocrat Renzi—are conscripted into the Royal Navy during the late 18th‑century wars with France, navigating adventure and duty across the seas.

Nathaniel Philbrick's Sea of Glory: A Story of Exploration, Discovery, and the Naming of the New World

Daphne du Maurier’s The Glass‑Blowers follows a family of eighteenth‑century French masters of glass‑making as they navigate the traditions of their craft and the turmoil of the French Revolution.

"Word has come from the British ambassador Arbuthnot that the neutral Turks are being wooed by the French and if the ancient city of Constantinople falls into their hands, Napoleon's route to India will be completely unfettered and his plans for world domination a reality. Concerned for his safety, Arbuthnot is demanding a large fleet presence to take him off and bring the Turks to their senses. Braving treacherous currents, unreliable winds, and giant bombards, Thomas Kydd returns to sea and rescues the ambassador, but as Kydd waits for the rest of the expected fleet, the French are able to strengthen the Turkish defenses. Meanwhile Kydd's friend and confidential secretary, Nicholas Renzi, has assumed a new and dangerous role that he can never make public. He engineers a coup in the Topkapi Palace that turns the tables on the French but at the cost of both infidel nations being ejected from the Ottoman Empire. When Kydd learns of Renzi's incarceration in a Turkish prison, he knows if will take superb seamanship and sheer bravado to free his friend"-- "Kydd returns to sea, commanding a frigate in the British Royal Navy of the early nineteenth century. The neutral Turks are being wooed by the French; if the ancient city of Constantinople falls into their hands Napoleon's route to India will be completely unfettered. Kydd is carrying a vital dispatch"--