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)
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerTitanic Love Stories by Gill PaulThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonGhosts of the Abyss by Don  Lynch
Sea Adventures and Disasters
308 books — 77 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
436 books — 332 voters

Sovay by Celia ReesThe Highwayman's Footsteps by Nicola MorganThe Crimson Book of Highwaymen by Peter NewarkThe Beggar's Opera by John GayThe Great Frost by Chris Speck
A Highwayman Comes Riding
62 books — 7 voters
Pirates! by Celia ReesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesSong of the Current by Sarah TolcserWhisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser
For Jacky Faber Lovers
78 books — 12 voters

On a Lee Shore by Elin GregoryAlmost a Scandal by Elizabeth EssexThe Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi LeeHeimkehr by Carlos MarshKidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews
Big Romance on Tall Ships
6 books — 6 voters

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

Stewart Stafford
Ebb and Flow by Stewart Stafford Happiness, briefest harbour in a squall; Tempests funnel us to splintered docks, High-seas missions to a last port of call, Fading feast taste of a haven of stasis. Weather springs with raging misprision, All things far beyond fingertip calculation, If we go off course with Fool's Gold vision, The reefs of avarice shall starkly claim us. We set sail or are torn from fragile sanctuary, All these stays, noted in the strangers' ledger, The Fate Morgana's captain ...more
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