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Maritime Books
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,351 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.17 — 233,318 ratings — published 2023
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,385 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.57 — 631,079 ratings — published 1851
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.46 — 176,922 ratings — published 1959
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,621 ratings — published 2015
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.85 — 552,332 ratings — published 1882
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,726 ratings — published 1995
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,398 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.46 — 25,230 ratings — published 2024
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,361,114 ratings — published 1952
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,828 ratings — published 1840
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,946 ratings — published 1950
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,470 ratings — published 2003
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,947 ratings — published 1869
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,758 ratings — published 2003
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.49 — 15,803 ratings — published 2025
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,942 ratings — published 2014
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,040 ratings — published 1972
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,747 ratings — published 2007
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,071 ratings — published 1973
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,654 ratings — published 1955
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,827 ratings — published 2021
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,303 ratings — published 2018
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,372 ratings — published 2018
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,583 ratings — published 1995
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,651 ratings — published 2002
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 23 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,848 ratings — published 1978
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,977 ratings — published 1977
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,479 ratings — published 1899
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,780,539 ratings — published 2001
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.88 — 726 ratings — published 2013
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,876 ratings — published 2019
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,916 ratings — published 2001
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,252,640 ratings — published -750
Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 )
by (shelved 21 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,552 ratings — published 1937
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 20 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,589 ratings — published 1979
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.45 — 14,062 ratings — published 1984
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 20 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.39 — 13,046 ratings — published 1983
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,398 ratings — published 1981
We, the Drowned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,681 ratings — published 2006
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as maritime)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,523 ratings — published 2013
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.09 — 78,093 ratings — published 2007
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 19 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,299 ratings — published 1986
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,330 ratings — published 1962
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.38 — 38,051 ratings — published 2004
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.35 — 267,785 ratings — published 2016
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 18 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,085 ratings — published 2001
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.07 — 34,479 ratings — published 1904
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as maritime)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,926 ratings — published 1952
“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open field, or jousting in the tournament, did not call out the manhood in a man as did the waiting till the great ship took the final plunge, in the knowledge that the seas round about were covered with loving and yearning witnesses whose own salvation was not assured.”
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“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”
― The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes
― The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes
