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"

Scorpion Deep
Tempest (The Lyrian Sea, #1)
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
The Sea Child
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Sea Captain's Wife
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
Ultramarine
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
The Bone Ship's Wake (The Tide Child, #3)
Ship of Spells
Saltblood
Captain's Dinner
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)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Old Man and the Sea
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
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickSix Frigates by Ian W. TollOver the Edge of the World by Laurence BergreenLongitude by Dava SobelCaptain Kidd by Samuel Marquis
Age of Sail Nonfiction
356 books — 92 voters
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
81 books — 5 voters

On a Lee Shore by Elin GregoryAlmost a Scandal by Elizabeth EssexThe Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi LeeGolden Lily - 10 Years On by Lijia XuKidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews
Big Romance on Tall Ships
6 books — 6 voters

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellThis One Summer by Mariko TamakiJunonia by Kevin HenkesThe Left-Handed Fate by Kate MilfordPrinceless by Jeremy Whitley
Nautical Middle-Grade Girls
28 books — 7 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
442 books — 357 voters

“ We were not a crew; we were only here at the same time. ”
― Rosemary McGuire, Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea

“ 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, ...more ”
― D.A. Wood

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