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Sailing Alone around the World
The Long Way
A Voyage for Madmen
Maiden Voyage
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
World of My Own
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
Dove: An Extraordinary Around-the-World Adventure―The Solo Voyage of Five Years and 33,000 Miles
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
World Cruising Routes, 5th Edition
Death on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareMurder on the Lusitania by Conrad AllenThe Case Of The Blind Barber by John Dickson CarrDead Wake by Erik Larson
Cruising for Crime
65 books — 12 voters
Kon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlSailing Alone around the World by Joshua SlocumEndurance by Alfred LansingThe Endurance by Caroline AlexanderMaiden Voyage by Tania Aebi
Sailing Cruising
281 books — 199 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
431 books — 331 voters
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Classic Adventure Novels
28 books — 18 voters

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. ...more
Ricky Skaggs

Philip Pullman
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her. ...more
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

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