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"

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
The Sea Child
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
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
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Ship of Spells
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
The Oceans and the Stars
Saltblood
East Indiaman (East Indiaman Saga Book 1)
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)
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
The Old Man and the Sea
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Odyssey by Homer
Nautical Novels
431 books — 331 voters
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickSix Frigates by Ian W. TollOver the Edge of the World by Laurence BergreenLongitude by Dava SobelCaptain Kidd by Samuel Marquis
Age of Sail Nonfiction
355 books — 90 voters

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Terror by Dan SimmonsAhab’s Rolling Sea by Richard J.  KingBlack Leviathan by Bernd PerpliesRailsea by China Miéville
Moby-Dick Inspired Books
27 books — 6 voters

Frederick Marryat
In Frederick Marryat's Mr. Midshipman Easy Jack's father, Mr. Easy, became a(n) ____________ as it was the very best profession a man can take up who is fit for nothing else.  ...more
Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy

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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