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 Sea Child
Fire Sword and Sea
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
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 Captain's Wife
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
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Fire Sword and Sea
Ship of Spells
Shackleton: A Biography
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
The Oceans and the Stars
The Night That Finds Us All
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
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
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)
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
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Odyssey by Homer
Nautical Tales
746 books — 400 voters

RMS Queen Mary 50 Years of Splendour by David F. HutchingsThe Queens of the North Atlantic by Robert LaceyRMS Queen Mary by Andrew   BrittonRMS Queen Mary; queen of the queens, by William James DuncanMasters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
On Board the Queen Mary
6 books — 1 voter
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

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
32 books — 11 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
44 books — 27 voters

David Grann
The ship is arranged with the greatest nicety; her decks are as white as snow - her hammocks are stowed with care - her ropes are taught - her yards square - her guns run out - and a guard of marines, under the orders of a lieutenant, prepared to receive every member of the court with the honour due to his rank... The great cabin is prepared, with a long table covered with a green cloth. Pens, ink, paper, prayer-books, and the Articles of War are laid round to every member.
David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Cathy Ostlere
Listen, Miss, boats are supposed to float. Even if they break up, they usually still float and show up on a shore somewhere. There have been no reports of wreckage or abandoned boats. At this point, no news is still good news. Don't worry. It's too early to worry. ...more
Cathy Ostlere, Lost: A Memoir

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