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 Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
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
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Ship of Spells
Saltblood
Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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)
Rudyard Kipling
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - ...more
Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

V.H. Witt
If you cease to make any other foolish quips, I may tell you of bloody struggles against the Turks, Swedes, or the English, and the great storms which raptured our ship as if we were pests in the face of Poseidon’s wrath.
V.H. Witt, Strife and Sublimity: Tales of Germanics and Slavs

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