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
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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 Sea Child
The Sea Captain's Wife
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Saltblood
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Ultramarine
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
The Night That Finds Us All
Shackleton: A Biography
Ship of Spells
Capitana (Capitana #1)
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
The Oceans and the Stars
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
Fire Sword and Sea
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea, #1)
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Black Tide Son (The Winter Sea, #2)
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
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 – An Award-Winning American Military History Book
Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
East Indiaman (East Indiaman Saga Book 1)
The Heiress at Sea
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
Blue Water (Laurence Jago, #2)
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique
Winchelsea
The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege
The Half Bird
Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Sea of Souls (Sea of Souls Saga, #1)
Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
From the Belly
Sea Serpent's Heir Book One: The Pirate's Daughter
Lure
Some Hellish
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Tim Powers
Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight. ...more
Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides

Patrick O'Brian
Why, the devil, do you see,' said Jack, 'is the seam between the deck-planking and the timbers, and we call it the devil, because it is the /devil/ for the caulkers to come at: in full we say, the devil to pay and no pitch hot; and what we mean is, that there is something hell-fire difficult to be done - must be done - and nothing to do it with. It is a figure. ...more
Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command

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