When retired journalism professor Dick Elam set out to write his first novel, Anne Bonny's Wake, which would take his readers to sea aboard a 20~(th)-century sloop, he encountered the same challenge that writers of nautical fiction and seafaring narratives have faced since the genre began: How to balance the desire—and need—to use the highly specific language of the mariner without losing the more lubberly reader.
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