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Give me your best recommendations, /lit/. A General History of the Pyrates, Two Years Before the Mast, Lord Jim, the whole lot. Did someone ever make a chart of the essentials?

>> No.10867265

>>10867257
Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around The World

>> No.10867295

the odyssey, the end

>> No.10867387
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Joseph Conrad

>> No.10867552

>>10867257
Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry

>> No.10867585
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The Sea-Wolf by Jack London.

>> No.10867598

Kon tiki

>> No.10867611

>>10867387
this

>> No.10867614
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Sabatini!

>> No.10868080

>>10867257
Reeman's Bolitho novels.
Good to see Two Years posted, one of the best neglected works of Am Lit-- Dana's short book on 19th c Cuba's also great.

>> No.10868119

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

>> No.10868424

Melville and Conrad boys

>> No.10868544

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

>> No.10868590

>>10867614
Scaramouche though no sea novel (like the other two) is I think Sabatini's best. Wonderful writer.

>> No.10868780

>>10867265
BASED

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>>10867257
Pic related.

>> No.10870058

>>10869134
I've never heard of Patrick o'Brian but those covers are magnificent. Are they a good read?

>> No.10870164

>>10870058
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.

>> No.10870460

>>10867265
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.

>> No.10871646

>>10867257
Far Tortuga is really underrated

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>>10867257
memoirs of a fighting captain by admiral thomas cochrane
the master and commander series was based on his life

>> No.10872188

>>10870058
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

>> No.10873420

>>10873416
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

>> No.10874194

>>10867257
Treasure Island.

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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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>>10867257
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).

>> No.10874610

fuck off retards, read Friedman
t. /nwg/

>> No.10874655

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.

>> No.10874854

Tempted by the Folio Society edition of the Hornblower books

>> No.10874944

>>10874596
that interests me! cant find a pdf anywhere though.

>> No.10874980

>>10874596
>björn
It checks out, norsemen fucking love boats

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>>10867387
Seconding Conrad. Pic related is great. I wasn't a big fan of Youth, personally.

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>> No.10876941

>>10874194
An Inland Voyage. Succeeds where the copycat Three Men in a Boat fails.

>> No.10878407

Bump

>> No.10878426

>>10867257
Pirates of Panama

>> No.10878686

>>10867257
Sea of Cortez

>> No.10879252

>>10867585
My nigger.

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>> No.10879476

Any nautical novels about real struggle and pain?

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Anyone read pic related?

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>> No.10879694

>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

>> No.10879698

>>10879694
>current*
2004

>> No.10879704

>>10875545
love the n word of narcissus

>> No.10879706

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

>> No.10879712

>>10879506
This is all set on land faggot

>> No.10879716

>>10879694
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.

>> No.10879725

>>10879712
yeah but the sea and sailing are core component faggot

>> No.10879781
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Is the One Piece manga truly among the greatest epics of our time?

>> No.10879803

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

>> No.10880419

The Old Man and The Sea might be relevant

>> No.10881388

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

>> No.10881464

anything by slauerhoff if you can find the translation

>> No.10881470

Hornblower

>> No.10881973

>>10881470
Fuck, didn't read the OP chart.

>> No.10881988

check out samuel eliott morison (relation of ts eliott)

>> No.10882007

>>10870460
was Slocum the original onion man?

>> No.10882013

>>10879506
good book
not relevant to thread

>>10879725
it's not a fucking seafaring book

>> No.10882017

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.

>> No.10882044

>>10875545
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

>> No.10882053

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!

>> No.10882098

do we count huck finn?

>> No.10882259

>>10882053
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a better book about the same expedition. Shackleton was the man.

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Newby, Eric - The last grain race

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

>> No.10882299

>>10882098
Sure. Huck Finn. Registered.

>> No.10883930

bump

>> No.10885046

bump

>> No.10885189

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

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>Just got pic related

What am I in for?

>> No.10886339

>>10886327
The greatest historical novel of all time.

>> No.10886400

Morgan Robertson

>> No.10886958

>>10867257
the sea wolf

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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.