Essential Nautical/Seafaring Literature

The private Journal of William Reynolds is pretty good.
Omoo, Typee, Redburn- Melville.
Nickerson and Chase- The loss of the ship Essex.
The sea wolf. -London
Two years before the mast

Melville and Conrad boys

The Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy. Such great summer beach reading, imo

Scaramouche though no sea novel (like the other two) is I think Sabatini's best. Wonderful writer.

BASED

Pic related.

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I've never heard of Patrick o'Brian but those covers are magnificent. Are they a good read?

PoB is the greatest historical novelist. Yes it's genre, but he's like the Don Bradman of that genre. He's as far ahead as Tolkien is in fantasy.

Came here to post this. Max Comfy. Onion fired in butter and two slices of toast is a great lunch.

Also, Tristan Jones, especially The Incredible Voyage.

Far Tortuga is really underrated

memoirs of a fighting captain by admiral thomas cochrane
the master and commander series was based on his life

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Yes, and the Master and Commander movie is a good watch.

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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is it good? I've read the source material that was already mentioned in the thread and I enjoyed it. But Im hesitant to pick up a book by any of the Philbricks

Treasure Island.

Have you tried Island by Alistair MacLeod? It's a short story collection? They're mainly set in Cape Breton and while they're not about sailing the high seas, there's a few about fishermen and they rest are super comfy

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I'd say this is one of the most important naval history books ever written. Sadly out of print. Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated by one man over a period of 10 years. It traces the history of shipbuilding from the age of papyrus boats to the present (1960s).

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fuck off retards, read Friedman
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There was a really good looking diary somebody on a fossil dig I was on was reading, unfortunately I had the details on my old phone. Might have been Dampier's, was wondering if you might be able to throw out some suggestions.

Martin Dugard seems to write a lot of crap but I was recommended Knockdown as the more grounded, less aggrandising account of the disasterous 1998 Sydney to Hobart. While I haven't read the competition it was a very exciting account that didn't strike me as being overegged and didn't fail to call a dog act out.

Tempted by the Folio Society edition of the Hornblower books

that interests me! cant find a pdf anywhere though.

>björn
It checks out, norsemen fucking love boats

Seconding Conrad. Pic related is great. I wasn't a big fan of Youth, personally.

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An Inland Voyage. Succeeds where the copycat Three Men in a Boat fails.

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Pirates of Panama

Sea of Cortez

My nigger.

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Any nautical novels about real struggle and pain?

Anyone read pic related?

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>handful of the 90s hardcover A/Ms are still available on Wordery
>could start collecting those but it will be about double the price of the less handsome current slip case edition assuming I can get them all at the same price

>current*
2004

love the n word of narcissus

>you will never man a sailing ship at the height of naval power and exploration
why live?

This is all set on land faggot

Actually that would probably be daft, because the last ones came out in the late 90s, that slipcase contained the unpublished one, so I'd have a complete mismatch of styles. Probably best to go the slip case set, even though it's a bit ugly compared to the front cover of those late era ones.

yeah but the sea and sailing are core component faggot

Is the One Piece manga truly among the greatest epics of our time?

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The Riddle of the Sands
Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn
Men’s Lives

The Old Man and The Sea might be relevant

If you want weird fantasy nautical, The Scar by China Mieville was a fun read

anything by slauerhoff if you can find the translation

Hornblower

Fuck, didn't read the OP chart.

check out samuel eliott morison (relation of ts eliott)

was Slocum the original onion man?

good book
not relevant to thread

it's not a fucking seafaring book

1788 - Watkins Tench

>A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson.

Not essential, but it was written by a marine officer who was part of the First Fleet to Australia.

youth is a really good quick read that will make you wanna abandon your life and become a sailor. it was a very emotional experience for me

Oh my God I have this autobiographical account of a South Pole expedition that went awry that I have yet to read.

It’s called South: the Endurance Expedition.

Some people died, some didn’t. But it’s fucking autobiographical mannn!

do we count huck finn?

Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a better book about the same expedition. Shackleton was the man.

Newby, Eric - The last grain race

Account from one of the last freight sailing ships, complete with photographs.

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Sure. Huck Finn. Registered.

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Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat is pretty good, written in 1836 too.

>Just got pic related

What am I in for?

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The greatest historical novel of all time.

Morgan Robertson

the sea wolf

A book of knots? Not much else better than a book of knots to keep a sailor occupied. Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

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