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"

Sea of Charms (Spellshop, #3)
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
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
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
Ultramarine
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
Saltblood
Ship of Spells
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
The Heiress at Sea
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)
The Admirals by Walter R. BornemanNelson by Andrew D. LambertThe Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh by George MackanessAdmirals by Andrew D. LambertLincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds
Admirals
79 books — 4 voters
Ukrainian Futurism, 1914–1930 by Oleh S. IlnytzkyjThe Occult Technology of Power by The TranscriberComedy by Robert W. CorriganThe Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon by Adam Lindsay GordonA Realistic Path to Peace by Dee Knight
'Ticalish Books
128 books — 5 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
162 books — 49 voters
On a Lee Shore by Elin GregoryAlmost a Scandal by Elizabeth EssexThe Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi LeeKidnapped by the Pirate by Keira AndrewsMy Lady, The Spy by Barbara Devlin
Big Romance on Tall Ships
5 books — 5 voters

Pirates! by Celia ReesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesSong of the Current by Sarah TolcserWhisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser
For Jacky Faber Lovers
79 books — 13 voters
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
439 books — 336 voters

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

Terry Pratchett
All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference between port and starboard? I don't. I've never even drunk starboard. ...more
Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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