Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
3.38
Format: None pages,
Two Years Before the Mastis a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a t…
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1. Sailing Alone around the World
By: Joshua Slocum
4.15
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas—the first man to circumnavigate the world… read more
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"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books w…"-Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
2. The Riddle of the Sands
By: Erskine Childers , Milton Bearden
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret Germ… read more
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3. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917
By: Ernest Shackleton
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more
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4. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
5. A Voyage for Madmen
By: Peter Nichols
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate … read more
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6. Beat to Quarters
By: C.S. Forester
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty h… read more
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7. The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)
By: James Fenimore Cooper , Robert Tilton
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that set… read more
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8. The Long Way
By: Bernard Moitessier
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more
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9. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
3.38
Format: None pages,
Two Years Before the Mastis a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a t… read more
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10. The Octopus: A Story of California
By: Frank Norris , Kevin Starr
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if t… read more
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11. Dove
By: Derek L.T. Gill , None
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, Californ… read more
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12. Roughing It
By: Mark Twain , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand Adventur… read more
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13. Mutiny on the Bounty (The Bounty Trilogy, #1)
By: Charles Bernard Nordhoff , James Norman Hall
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the thrilling account of the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Ma… read more
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14. The Sea Wolf
By: Jack London
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the se… read more
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15. Conan (Book 1)
By: Robert E. Howard , Lin Carter , L. Sprague de Camp
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
"The Hyborian Age", part 1 (article) * Robert E. Howard "The Thing in the Crypt" (short story) * L.… read more
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16. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
By: Laurence Bergreen
4.67
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year… read more
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17. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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19. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
By: Laurence Bergreen
3.91
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus brings ali… read more
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20. All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
By: Will Sofrin
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired by Hollywood to sail an 18th-centu… read more
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21. World of My Own
By: Robin Knox-Johnston
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour stee… read more
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