Most Read This Week In 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 ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Nautical"

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

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

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea, #1)

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War – An Award-Winning American Military History Book

Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

East Indiaman (East Indiaman Saga Book 1)

Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege

Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea

Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

Sea Serpent's Heir Book One: The Pirate's Daughter

The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific

The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

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Quotes Tagged “Nautical”

“ It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. ”
― John Locke

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“ Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. ...more ”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission

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