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"

The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
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
The Sea Child
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Ship of Spells
Saltblood
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
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)
The Old Man and the Sea
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
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
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviThe Beast of Cretacea by Todd StrasserBloody Jack by L.A. MeyerPirates! by Celia ReesBoston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm
Seafaring Middle Graders
158 books — 48 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 — 28 voters
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerTitanic Love Stories by Gill PaulThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonGhosts of the Abyss by Don  Lynch
Sea Adventures and Disasters
308 books — 77 voters

Tim Powers
Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.' Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done. ...more
Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse in a dead man’s eye!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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