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Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,214 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.56 — 613,228 ratings — published 1851
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,270 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,074 ratings — published 2023
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.85 — 537,938 ratings — published 1882
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,188 ratings — published 1950
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 92 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,138 ratings — published 1972
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,337 ratings — published 1973
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,301,547 ratings — published 1952
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,097 ratings — published 1959
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.89 — 275,335 ratings — published 1869
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 69 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,336 ratings — published 1977
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,565 ratings — published 1840
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 62 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,109 ratings — published 1979
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 60 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,311 ratings — published 1978
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 58 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,109 ratings — published 1980
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,772 ratings — published 1997
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 54 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,023 ratings — published 1981
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,651 ratings — published 2015
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 50 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,637 ratings — published 1984
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 50 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,495 ratings — published 1952
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.06 — 33,338 ratings — published 1904
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 48 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,682 ratings — published 1983
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 48 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.50 — 11,993 ratings — published 1988
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin, #13)
by (shelved 44 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,272 ratings — published 1989
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,100 ratings — published 1995
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,154 ratings — published 1899
Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 )
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,237 ratings — published 1937
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,746,626 ratings — published 2001
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,541 ratings — published 1993
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,444 ratings — published 1991
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,000 ratings — published 1986
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,140 ratings — published 2007
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,975 ratings — published 1962
Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,900 ratings — published 1953
The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin, #17)
by (shelved 38 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,554 ratings — published 1994
Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7)
by (shelved 38 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,724 ratings — published 1938
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #8)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.35 — 8,581 ratings — published 1938
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,368 ratings — published 1996
Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #10)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,562 ratings — published 1946
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,183,228 ratings — published -700
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,554 ratings — published 2014
The Truelove (Aubrey & Maturin, #15)
by (shelved 35 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,043 ratings — published 1991
Commodore Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,453 ratings — published 1945
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,922 ratings — published 2003
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,531 ratings — published 1999
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.68 — 330,092 ratings — published 1719
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.24 — 103,592 ratings — published 1998
Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,709 ratings — published 2002
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,345 ratings — published 2003
“I should say we’d reach England by Tuesday or thereabouts, with a decent wind behind us. It would be a lot quicker than that if we could just sail straight there, but I was looking at the nautical charts, and there’s a dirty great sea serpent right in the middle of the ocean! It has a horrible gaping maw and one of those scaly tails that looks like it could snap a boat clean in two. So I thought it best to sail around that.’
FitzRoy frowned. ‘I think they just draw those on maps to add a bit of decoration. It doesn’t actually mean there’s a sea serpent there.’
The galley went rather quiet. A few of the pirate crew stared intently out of the portholes, embarrassed at their Captain’s mistake. But to everyone’s relief, instead of running somebody through, the Pirate Captain just narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
That explains a lot,’ he said. ‘I suppose it’s also why we’ve never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I’m a little disappointed.”
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
FitzRoy frowned. ‘I think they just draw those on maps to add a bit of decoration. It doesn’t actually mean there’s a sea serpent there.’
The galley went rather quiet. A few of the pirate crew stared intently out of the portholes, embarrassed at their Captain’s mistake. But to everyone’s relief, instead of running somebody through, the Pirate Captain just narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
That explains a lot,’ he said. ‘I suppose it’s also why we’ve never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I’m a little disappointed.”
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
“As madcap whitecaps hammered at the hulls,
the bowsprits breasting saw-toothed waves
now high and mighty, now abject, the Sun
looked down and watched the boats—so bantam, meek,
and of no consequence—become engulfed
by stormclouds smothering the sallow sea.
A norther hurled its curses at the fleet
as in return garboards and sheerstrakes groaned
amidst the helter-skelter of loud shouts.
With drenched and veiny arms the tillers clenched
the quarter rudders, trying to prevent
the roaring ocean, frothing at the mouth,
from swallowing the ships they’d sworn to guide
while thinking: Who, in the last instance, can
withstand its infinite, digestive force?
Anon this beast became a lesser cause
for fear, supplanted by the high-pitched shrieks
of something neither man nor animal
that lurked beyond them in the ebon drear,
its contour barely visible by turns
when intermittent bolts transpierced the sky.
(Canaäd, XV 271-91)”
―
the bowsprits breasting saw-toothed waves
now high and mighty, now abject, the Sun
looked down and watched the boats—so bantam, meek,
and of no consequence—become engulfed
by stormclouds smothering the sallow sea.
A norther hurled its curses at the fleet
as in return garboards and sheerstrakes groaned
amidst the helter-skelter of loud shouts.
With drenched and veiny arms the tillers clenched
the quarter rudders, trying to prevent
the roaring ocean, frothing at the mouth,
from swallowing the ships they’d sworn to guide
while thinking: Who, in the last instance, can
withstand its infinite, digestive force?
Anon this beast became a lesser cause
for fear, supplanted by the high-pitched shrieks
of something neither man nor animal
that lurked beyond them in the ebon drear,
its contour barely visible by turns
when intermittent bolts transpierced the sky.
(Canaäd, XV 271-91)”
―
