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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New Releases Tagged "Nautical"

Scorpion Deep
Tempest (The Lyrian Sea, #1)
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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 Sea Child
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
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
The Sea Captain's Wife
Captain's Dinner
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Ultramarine
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
Saltblood
The Oceans and the Stars
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Treasure Island
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Old Man and the Sea
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
Raise the Titanic! by Clive CusslerThe Wreck Of The Mary Deare by Hammond InnesThe Wrecking Crew by Taylor ZajoncFall of the Suns by Ieuan DolbyGreen To Go by John H. Cunningham
Modern Maritime Adventure
36 books — 12 voters

FEAR IS THE KEY By ALISTAIR MacLEAN Fawcett Gold Medal PB 196... by Alistair MacLeanThe Raising of the Dubhe by Patrick O'ConnorA Flock of Ships by Brian CallisonFloodtide for Rafferty by Joan WoodberryThe amphorae pirates by Lou Cameron
Maritime Salvage in Fiction
47 books — 3 voters
Six Frigates by Ian W. TollThe Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. HornfischerTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.The Conquering Tide by Ian W. TollThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James Faro
Ten Best Naval & Nautical Books
48 books — 29 voters

The Last Tale of Norah Bow by J.P.    WhiteLost Son of Salem by Mohammad AlfaresMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianThe Sea Child by Linda WilgusFrenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Nautical Historical Fiction
149 books — 67 voters
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerTitanic Love Stories by Gill PaulThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sea Adventures and Disasters
311 books — 79 voters

John Locke
“ It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. ”
― John Locke

Gretel Ehrlich
“ In the evenings the boat spun on its anchor and mist fell to its knees, raining directly into seawater. Trees grew on red buoys, bald eagles lifted out of dark trunks like white-steepled chapels, a raven ate a crab in the boat's crow's nest, and schools of herring, who sometimes migrate in rolled-up balls five or six inches thick, broad-jumped the incoming tide. ...more ”
― Gretel Ehrlich, A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

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