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10946555 No.10946555 [Reply] [Original]

Best works about the sea? Prose or poetry.
Just bought pic related but have not read it yet (Bartleby the Scrivener was rather good).

>> No.10946569

>>10946555
I like Melville's Typee a lot too. It's incredibly comfy.

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>> No.10946624

Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Dana
Memoirs of a Fighting Captain - Admiral Thomas Cochrane

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>> No.10947337

Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

>> No.10947358

Gotta include Rhime of the Ancient Mariner if we talkin about the sea boi.

I've heard Sea-Wolf by Jack London is good too.

>> No.10947516

>best books about the sea
>picked it up but haven't read it
Start with that you fucking dork.

>> No.10947837

>penguin
fuck off

>> No.10948980

of course 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

>> No.10950427

The Old Man and the Sea it's a downer tho.

>> No.10950462

>>10946555
try some of Algernon Swinburne's poetry.

>> No.10950615

Pym

>> No.10950806

china Mieville's the scar is the best fantasy I have read about the sea.

>> No.10950820

drunken boat

>> No.10950989

Take your pick from Joseph Conrad

>> No.10951201

>>10946555
That novel is unironically the GOAT

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