Most Read This Week In Nautical

Nautical has many names, the most common choices being Maritime, Sea Fiction, and Sea Stories. Nautical refers to Nautical Fiction or Non-fictional accounts at sea.

This large theme can include man's relationship with the sea, sea creatures and monsters, natural disasters at sea, wartime memoirs, events at sea or with sea vessels such as submarines and life rafts. It also encompasses sea-related events such as survival crashes near or into oceans, being shipwrecked, pirates, or sea legends and myths.

Nautical culture is usually highly focused on, particularly with boats or sea life details. Thi ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Nautical"

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)

Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea, #1)

Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History

Sea Serpent's Heir Book One: The Pirate's Daughter

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

East Indiaman (East Indiaman Saga Book 1)

Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique

Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic

The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945

The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

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Quotes Tagged “Nautical”

“ I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre. 'They're lying, Tim!' 'What?' 'The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.' 'Has anyone told the French that?' The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.' I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle no ...more ”
― Tim Fitzhigham, In the Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing

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“ If you cease to make any other foolish quips, I may tell you of bloody struggles against the Turks, Swedes, or the English, and the great storms which raptured our ship as if we were pests in the face of Poseidon’s wrath. ”
― V.H. Witt, Strife and Sublimity: Tales of Germanics and Slavs

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