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ITT: Novels about sailing and the sea
Turtle Chunk
Sailing with a side of cannibalism
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Barth is a sailing aficionado
Tidewater Tales
Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
Once Upon a Time
Sailing Alone Around the World. Its not a novel so much as it is a collection of diary entries though. Super interesting though.
on what date did it become unacceptable to eat the cabin boy?
and why
Aubrey-Maturin series aka Master and Commander series by Patrick O’Brian
Conrad had a bunch of good sea stories
Typhoon
Victory
Youth
The Nigger of the Narcissus
The Shadow Line
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pirate freedom
dr doolittle novels
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Obligatory Moby-Dick post
Pym
The Riddle of the Sands
Any recommendations for something taking place in an oriental country?
Nigger of the Narcissus
Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum
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When I was about to be evicted for being a useless neet I thought about joining the navy
ended up moving back in with my parents instead. high seas blow
The Horatio Hornblower books are terrific, lads.
Shite start, great ending.
good thread, bump
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Iron Coffins
Red Star Under the Baltic
The old man and the sea
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Isaac's Storm
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Sea Lord by Bernard Cornwell
The William Hope Hodgson novels, the Boats of the Glencarraig and the Ghost Pirates.
Shogun, Taipan, etc, by James Clavell, unironically.
Mediterranean recs? I want to go there and work on a boat and write.
Inb4 The Odyssey, I've done that. Ancient stuff accepted, modern preferred
>Inb4 The Odyssey, I've done that.
That's because you've not read The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, user. Do it again.