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More books like this? I don't know how to describe it other than "dramatized non-fiction stories".

it's what nathaniel philbrick specializes in. i've been enjoying his works on washington and "in the heart of the sea" was also good, which is the story of the ship off which the pequod was based.

Skeletons on the Zahara might fit. It's about sailors who shipwrecked on the Western Sahara coast in 1815.

>>24458761 (OP)
in the heard of the sea

>>24458761 (OP)
"Rubicon" by Tom Holland, about the final days of the Roman Republic and the start of the Roman Empire.

>>24458761 (OP)
Batavia's Graveyard

>>24458761 (OP)
>I don't know how to describe it other than "dramatized non-fiction stories".
Usually its referred to as narrative history as opposed to more academic history.

>>24458761 (OP)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

So it's like historical fiction but with real events and people?

>>24458761 (OP)
got this for my mom and she loved it. it's the story over a very bold and ambitious conman. she tells me one detail she enjoyed is that he carried a medical book around and claimed to be a doctor. when someone was injured, he would render aid. sometimes he helped and sometimes he didn't, but people were just as appreciative in either case.
>>24460551
qrd? excerpt?

>>24458761 (OP)
>"dramatized non-fiction stories"
Historical fiction? Narrative history?

>>24461004
>OP explicitly says non-fiction and uses a non-fiction book as an example
>"Historical fiction?"
The absolute state

>>24458830
Why would you read this garbage when the primary source is still widely available?

>>24458761 (OP)
Say Nothing. Is pretty similar, same kind of narrative non fiction style.

sounds like memoirs might be up your alley. non fiction events told with a first person narrative format

>>24462699
That was spectacular. Read it two years ago.

>>24458761 (OP)
Would picrel be considered dramatized nonfiction? Just got it for my birthday.

>>24464683
>Seldom indeed
I'm so glad most sensible people stopped writing like this.

>>24458761 (OP)
I really liked The River Of Doubt by Candice Millard. She has a few others which I still haven't read yet. I'm just a big Teddy Roosevelt fan and it was a really interesting and exciting story. Just looked up a picture of her as well and she's kinda cute. Extra bonus.

>>24465710
forgot pic