Boats

Books tagged with "boat" may be non-fiction about boats themselves or a non-fiction maritime account. The tag will also be used for fiction books where at least part of the story takes place on a boat.

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Little Tug
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Old Boat
Sail Away (Rise and Shine)
Boats on the Bay: A Picture Book
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
I'm Mighty!: A Harbor Picture Book About a Small Tugboat Pulling Big Ships for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Kate and Jim Mcmullan)
Who Sank the Boat? (Paperstar)
Old MacDonald Had a Boat
Mighty Tug
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Boats Float! (Richard Jackson Book)
Kon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlThe Turquoise Lament by John D. MacDonaldTwelve Mile Bank by Nicholas  HarveyThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerThe Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
Adventures with a Nautical Flair
59 books — 9 voters
The Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John HowgegoThose Vulgar Tubes by Joe J. Simmons IIIIngenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. FrankShipwreck Anthropology by Richard A. GouldShip Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by Roy R. Behrens
~~Coughing Up Ships~
218 books — 8 voters

Slave Catching In The Indian Ocean by Philip Howard ColombA Maverick Traveller by Mary Jane WalkerThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Rise and Fall of Nader Shah by Willem M. FloorWorld-Building and the Early Modern Imagination by Allison B. Kavey
Speaking In Foams
101 books — 2 voters
Argonaut The Inua Humpback by Clifford L. GionetHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterMy Dirty California by Jason Mosberg
At the Seashore
132 books — 36 voters

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann VanderhoofEnchanted Vagabonds by Dana LambGipsy Moth by Francis ChichesterMaurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
Sailing Memoirs
25 books — 6 voters
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. LewisTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonLife of Pi by Yann MartelA Night to Remember by Walter LordThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard
Ships on the Cover
446 books — 123 voters

Paul A. Barra
Can you tell us what happened, Percy? All right if I call you Percy?” “Yes, if I can call you Harry.”
The detective smiled thinly. Janet Bruno did not smile at all.
Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

Michael Morpurgo
You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.
Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

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