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Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,112 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,404 ratings — published 1851
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,926 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.17 — 216,763 ratings — published 2023
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.85 — 544,645 ratings — published 1882
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,509 ratings — published 1950
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 92 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,509 ratings — published 1972
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,631 ratings — published 1973
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,328,005 ratings — published 1952
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.46 — 169,549 ratings — published 1959
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,810 ratings — published 1869
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 69 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,597 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 — 14,679 ratings — published 1840
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 61 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,287 ratings — published 1979
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 60 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,491 ratings — published 1978
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,472 ratings — published 1997
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 57 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,267 ratings — published 1980
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,279 ratings — published 2015
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 53 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,166 ratings — published 1981
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,675 ratings — published 1952
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.06 — 33,844 ratings — published 1904
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 49 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,811 ratings — published 1984
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 49 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.50 — 12,125 ratings — published 1988
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 48 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,826 ratings — published 1983
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin, #13)
by (shelved 45 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,416 ratings — published 1989
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,284 ratings — published 1899
Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 )
by (shelved 42 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,378 ratings — published 1937
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,762,041 ratings — published 2001
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 41 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,119 ratings — published 1986
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,265 ratings — published 2007
Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,029 ratings — published 1953
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,411 ratings — published 1995
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,655 ratings — published 1993
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 40 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,579 ratings — published 1991
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,121 ratings — published 1962
Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7)
by (shelved 39 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,822 ratings — published 1938
The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin, #17)
by (shelved 38 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,663 ratings — published 1994
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,043 ratings — published 2024
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,206,212 ratings — published -800
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 — 26,197 ratings — published 2014
Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #8)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.35 — 8,686 ratings — published 1938
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,461 ratings — published 1996
The Truelove (Aubrey & Maturin, #15)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,155 ratings — published 1991
Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #10)
by (shelved 36 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,645 ratings — published 1946
Commodore Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,543 ratings — published 1945
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,258 ratings — published 2003
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.24 — 107,081 ratings — published 1998
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 34 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,633 ratings — published 1999
Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as nautical)
avg rating 4.11 — 27,794 ratings — published 2002
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as nautical)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,405 ratings — published 2003
“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 - marine actuary,
Virtual kin crew with fish and fowl companions.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
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 - marine actuary,
Virtual kin crew with fish and fowl companions.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“In the evenings the boat spun on its anchor and mist fell to its knees, raining directly into seawater. Trees grew on red buoys, bald eagles lifted out of dark trunks like white-steepled chapels, a raven ate a crab in the boat's crow's nest, and schools of herring, who sometimes migrate in rolled-up balls five or six inches thick, broad-jumped the incoming tide.”
― A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
― A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
