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Seafaring Books
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,654 ratings — published 2000
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,473 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as seafaring)
avg rating 3.57 — 623,571 ratings — published 1851
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.17 — 221,653 ratings — published 2023
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as seafaring)
avg rating 3.85 — 547,056 ratings — published 1882
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,662 ratings — published 1972
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.46 — 171,771 ratings — published 1959
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,749 ratings — published 1973
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.24 — 83,034 ratings — published 2023
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,584 ratings — published 1978
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,707 ratings — published 1977
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,625 ratings — published 1950
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,372 ratings — published 1979
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as seafaring)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,337,440 ratings — published 1952
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,401 ratings — published 1999
We, the Drowned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,474 ratings — published 2006
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.09 — 513,121 ratings — published 1952
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,415 ratings — published 2003
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.24 — 108,756 ratings — published 1998
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as seafaring)
avg rating 3.93 — 244,318 ratings — published 2017
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,722 ratings — published 1840
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,020 ratings — published 1904
Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,083 ratings — published 1953
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,351 ratings — published 1980
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as seafaring)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,481 ratings — published 1990
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.00 — 117,958 ratings — published 2020
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 13 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,883 ratings — published 1984
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,231 ratings — published 1981
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.31 — 306,456 ratings — published 2023
Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,548 ratings — published 1932
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,896 ratings — published 1983
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,102 ratings — published 1986
A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,989 ratings — published 1995
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.50 — 12,185 ratings — published 1988
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,188 ratings — published 1962
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,751 ratings — published 1952
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,410 ratings — published 2014
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,707 ratings — published 1993
The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin, #17)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,721 ratings — published 1994
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,333 ratings — published 1899
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,036 ratings — published 1995
Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 )
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,421 ratings — published 1937
Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,849 ratings — published 2002
The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.34 — 87,215 ratings — published 1999
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,870 ratings — published 2024
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,260 ratings — published 2019
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.25 — 162,450 ratings — published 2007
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 10 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,637 ratings — published 1991
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 10 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,671 ratings — published 1999
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 10 times as seafaring)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,510 ratings — published 1996
“Conrad tillhör de sjömän som får uppleva hur ångan triumferar och seglen försvinner från haven. Han befinner sig mitt inne i ett väldigt maktskifte. En tusenårig tradition bryts och ett helt nytt element förs in.
På segelfartyget är det kaptenen och hans män som är förmedlarna mellan Gud och världen. De fångar in och tyglar vinden som driver fartyget framåt. Seglaren lever i nära förbindelse med naturen, som han måste böja sig för, som han betjänar och utnyttjar.
När ångan kom, togs makten från kaptenen och gavs åt maskinisten i maskindjupet. Man seglade inte på havet längre utan plöjde sig genom det. Befälet på bryggan flyttades ned, förnedrades, hade blott själva navigeringen kvar och inte kraftöverföringen.”
― Färd med Mörkrets hjärta: En bok om Joseph Conrads roman
På segelfartyget är det kaptenen och hans män som är förmedlarna mellan Gud och världen. De fångar in och tyglar vinden som driver fartyget framåt. Seglaren lever i nära förbindelse med naturen, som han måste böja sig för, som han betjänar och utnyttjar.
När ångan kom, togs makten från kaptenen och gavs åt maskinisten i maskindjupet. Man seglade inte på havet längre utan plöjde sig genom det. Befälet på bryggan flyttades ned, förnedrades, hade blott själva navigeringen kvar och inte kraftöverföringen.”
― Färd med Mörkrets hjärta: En bok om Joseph Conrads roman
“My broad conclusion is that an advanced global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, that it mapped the earth as it looked then with stunning accuracy, and that it had solved the problem of longitude, which our own civilization failed to do until the invention of Harrison's marine chronometer in the late eighteenth century. As masters of celestial navigation, as explorers, as geographers, and as cartographers, therefore, this lost civilization of 12,800 years ago was not outstripped by Western science until less than 300 years ago at the peak of the Age of Discovery.”
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
