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Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,558 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,373 ratings — published 1851
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,822 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.17 — 222,803 ratings — published 2023
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.85 — 547,532 ratings — published 1882
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,646 ratings — published 1950
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 92 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,707 ratings — published 1972
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,339,753 ratings — published 1952
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.46 — 172,317 ratings — published 1959
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,780 ratings — published 1973
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,379 ratings — published 1869
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 69 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,738 ratings — published 1977
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,733 ratings — published 1840
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 62 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,394 ratings — published 1979
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 61 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,611 ratings — published 1978
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 58 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,368 ratings — published 1980
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,812 ratings — published 1997
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.13 — 164,540 ratings — published 2015
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 54 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,248 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,067 ratings — published 1904
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,772 ratings — published 1952
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 50 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,900 ratings — published 1984
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 50 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.50 — 12,208 ratings — published 1988
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 49 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,918 ratings — published 1983
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin, #13)
by (shelved 46 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,484 ratings — published 1989
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,344 ratings — published 1899
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,109 ratings — published 1995
Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 )
by (shelved 42 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,439 ratings — published 1937
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 42 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,189 ratings — published 1986
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,159 ratings — published 2024
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,768,672 ratings — published 2001
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.09 — 76,369 ratings — published 2007
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,653 ratings — published 1991
Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,091 ratings — published 1953
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,723 ratings — published 1993
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,217,473 ratings — published -800
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,203 ratings — published 1962
Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,862 ratings — published 1938
The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin, #17)
by (shelved 38 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,730 ratings — published 1994
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,467 ratings — published 2014
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #8)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,747 ratings — published 1938
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,525 ratings — published 1996
The Truelove (Aubrey & Maturin, #15)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,222 ratings — published 1991
Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #10)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,688 ratings — published 1946
Commodore Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,597 ratings — published 1945
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,457 ratings — published 2003
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,188 ratings — published 1998
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,688 ratings — published 1999
Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,862 ratings — published 2002
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,240 ratings — published 2016
“The monster under my bed is pitchpoling. See, when you’re in heavy seas you always face the bow forward. Steer into the waves. Seems to break the laws of nature but most times it works. You're gonna live to see another day. If your vessel gets turned sideways though, you get stuck in the trough and in heavy seas you can capsize. I don’t even worry about that so much. I can control that- I just steer the boat into the oncoming waves. Problem solved. Until it’s not.”
― Motion of Intervals
― Motion of Intervals
“I should say we’d reach England by Tuesday or thereabouts, with a decent wind behind us. It would be a lot quicker than that if we could just sail straight there, but I was looking at the nautical charts, and there’s a dirty great sea serpent right in the middle of the ocean! It has a horrible gaping maw and one of those scaly tails that looks like it could snap a boat clean in two. So I thought it best to sail around that.’
FitzRoy frowned. ‘I think they just draw those on maps to add a bit of decoration. It doesn’t actually mean there’s a sea serpent there.’
The galley went rather quiet. A few of the pirate crew stared intently out of the portholes, embarrassed at their Captain’s mistake. But to everyone’s relief, instead of running somebody through, the Pirate Captain just narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
That explains a lot,’ he said. ‘I suppose it’s also why we’ve never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I’m a little disappointed.”
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
FitzRoy frowned. ‘I think they just draw those on maps to add a bit of decoration. It doesn’t actually mean there’s a sea serpent there.’
The galley went rather quiet. A few of the pirate crew stared intently out of the portholes, embarrassed at their Captain’s mistake. But to everyone’s relief, instead of running somebody through, the Pirate Captain just narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
That explains a lot,’ he said. ‘I suppose it’s also why we’ve never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I’m a little disappointed.”
― The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
