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

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

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

Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)

Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

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

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

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

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

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

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

East Indiaman (East Indiaman Saga Book 1)

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

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

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

Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Quotes Tagged “Nautical”

“ My wisdom is for my friends, my folly for myself. ”
― Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy

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“ 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

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