/sea/

[Anonymous No.18402476]

looking for novels, poetry, etc about the sea

[Anonymous No.18402482]

>>18402476

[Anonymous No.18402488]

Obligatory Moby-Dick

[Anonymous No.18402497]

>>18402476
Taken by the Sea - Adrian Blue

[Anonymous No.18402500]

[Anonymous No.18402512]

[Anonymous No.18402532]

[Anonymous No.18402565]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

[Anonymous No.18402767]

try all the master and commander books.
>much better than the movies.

[Anonymous No.18402820]

>>18402767
Reading the first one now, quite comfy, kinda don't want to like it tho so I don't feel obligated to read the other 19. Gonna be a chore finding these at the library

[Anonymous No.18402854]

“As I was once sailing,” said he, “in a fine stout ship across the banks
of Newfoundland, one of those heavy fogs which prevail in those parts
rendered it impossible for us to see far ahead even in the day time; but
at night the weather was so thick that we could not distinguish any
object at twice the length of the ship. I kept lights at the mast head and
a constant watch forward to look out for fishing smacks, which are
accustomed to lie at anchor on the banks. The wind was blowing a
smacking breeze and we were going at a great rate through the water.
Suddenly the watch gave the alarm of ‘a sail ahead!’—it was scarcely
uttered before we were upon her. She was a small schooner at anchor,
with the broad side toward us. The crew were all asleep and had
neglected to hoist a light. We struck her just a mid-ships. The force, the
size and weight of our vessel bore her down below the waves—we
passed over her and were hurried on our course. As the crashing wreck
was sinking beneath us I had a glimpse of two or three halfnaked
wretches, rushing from her cabin—they just started from their beds to be
swallowed shrieking by the waves. I heard their drowning cry mingling
with the wind. The blast that bore it to our ears swept us out of all
further hearing—I shall never forget that cry!—It was some time before
we could put the ship about; she was under such headway. We returned
as nearly as we could guess to the place where the smack had anchored.
We cruised about for several hours in the dense fog. We fired signal guns
and listened if we might hear the halloo of any survivors; but all was
silent—we never saw or heard any thing of them more!—”
I don't have any niche things to share, but this small tale of sailing spoken by a sea captain is something I can share.
the book is The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon if anyone's interested, but only the beginning short story is about sailing

[Anonymous No.18402880]

pic related

[Anonymous No.18402892]

>>18402820
I just have them all on kindle.

>>18402476
I have some nonfiction suggestions for sailing
>Tinkerbelle - Robert Manry
>Cape Horn to Starboard - John Kretschmer
>At the Mercy of the Sea - John Kretschmer
>Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum

[Anonymous No.18402964]

The Aubrey maturin books are something like 19000 pages of brilliant sailor comfiness. First 3 are pure brilliance, 4 is pretty bad, but after that they pick up again. Truly wonderful books

[Anonymous No.18402988]

>>18402476
the tempest

[Anonymous No.18403074]

> With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
This line gets me every time. The first paragraph and Melville already has us ensnared. I can't stop thinking about it.
>come from long line of sailors and boatsmen
>Dad was a naval officer, grandfather a sailor, great grandfather a captain, etc etc since the mid 1800s
>be me, married young to my high school sweet heart my senior year of college
>have a great life on land but I'll never get to take to the sea like Ishmael
It torments me because I'm happy but I just feel like something is missing from my very soul and being.

[Anonymous No.18403087]

>>18403074
>It torments me because I'm happy
Cope. Drop the wife, anon. She's snuffing out the life of your very soul!

[Anonymous No.18403238]

>>18402964
You’re a retard

[Anonymous No.18403309]

>>18402476
This has been my favorite aesthetic lately.

-Sea Wolf by Jack London was kino

-Moby Dick. You probably won’t get anything as meditative and masterful as this

- Typee. It’s more Melville.

[Anonymous No.18403323]

>>18403309
>This has been my favorite aesthetic lately.
same wtf, but Conrad in my case

[Anonymous No.18403346]

The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser.

[Anonymous No.18403370]

>>18403087
Hell no, I love my wife and I'd be hard pressed to ever find another woman half as good as her. As much as I would have liked to gone to sea, growing old alone is infinitely more horrifying, I've seen it first hand.

[Anonymous No.18403383]

>>18402476
The Flying Dutchman opera is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gArL5NHRkm4

[Anonymous No.18403453]

>>18402854
Damn bro. Spook as fuck!

[Anonymous No.18403668]

>>18402476
The Voyages of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne

[Anonymous No.18403680]

>>18402565
Man these old woodworks...

[Anonymous No.18403701]

>>18403074
Funny because I think I just want to go out to the sea to run away from my problems. Maybe you should go out on a voyage with your wife and kids (when you have them), I once read this story about a guy who went around the world in a ship with only his wife and kids. What an experience it must have been.

[Anonymous No.18403704]

>>18402476
He surfaced in surf, in serve of his servitude
Serving a curse that's conserving his youth
The scurvy it hurts but the worst is the certitude
Earth will still turn while he yearns for a truce

[Anonymous No.18403756]

I
As mad sexton's bell, tolling
For Earth's loveliest daughter,
Night's dumbness breaks rolling
Ghostily:
So our boat breaks the water
Witchingly.

II
As her look the dream troubles
Of her tearful-eyed lover,
So our sails in the bubbles
Ghostily
Are mirrored, and hover
Moonily.

>t. beddoes

[Anonymous No.18403797]

>>18403701
Ex girlfriend grew up like this. Just her parents and her brother in a boat circumnavigating the world. She said the cabin fever made it hell on earth.

[Anonymous No.18404116]

>>18402476
20000 leagues under the sea

[Anonymous No.18404139]

>>18402964
>Aubrey
1 is shit, he hasn't copped his pace. 2 & 3 are him developing. 4 is him failing in his structure. 5-12 are master. 13-16 are repetition. 17-21 are like later dune novels.

The bit where Maturin has his indian slave girl-child murdered for his own self-loathing gratification is actually genius though, it explains why he put up with his bitch wife.

[Anonymous No.18404146]

The boat.

[Anonymous No.18404274]

>>18402476
Nobody mentions Conrad? He wrote some of the best nautical novels out there:
>Lord Jim
>Shadow line
>Nostromo
>Heart of Darkness, to a degree (especially the first chapter has some meaningful insights about life on the sea)

[Anonymous No.18404280]

>>18402880
based, I just wrote that nobody mentions Conrad but apparently that's not the case

[Anonymous No.18404368]

picrel
Also, The Life of Nelson by Southey

[Anonymous No.18404477]

>>18402565
>So auf gut Glück stürmte die Brick südwärts, vom Nord (?)
fellow Germanons help me out, what does the last word say? It looks like "umschnaubt" but that's not a real word is it?

[Anonymous No.18404741]

>>18402476
Horcynus Orca.

>>18402532
>>18402512
Thank you for these, love it.

[Anonymous No.18404892]

>>18403370
What's so horrifying about it? That's probably how many men end up trapped in marriages. They are horrified of being alone or whatever that means. Good friendships are way more important.

[Anonymous No.18404972]

>>18404477
Doch. Schnauben ist was ein Pferd macht wenn es durch die Nase ausatmet. Eine poetische Art zu sagen der nordwind umbläst das Schiff.

[Anonymous No.18405355]

>>18404274
Seconding Conrad, he's a must when it comes to nautical fiction.

[Anonymous No.18405364]

>>18402476
I pee in the sea
and see what I be

[Anonymous No.18405384]

>>18402476

Some Shakespeare:

Description of a storm on the sea:

MONTANO
What from the cape can you discern at sea?
First Gentleman
Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood;
I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,
Descry a sail.
MONTANO
Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?
Second Gentleman
A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,
seems to cast water on the burning bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:
I never did like molestation view
On the enchafed flood.

Or this, on the same theme:

Clown: Hilloa, loa!

Shepherd:What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk
on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What
ailest thou, man?

Clown:I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land!
but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the
sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust
a bodkin's point.

Shepherd:Why, boy, how is it?

Clown:I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,
how it takes up the shore! but that's not the
point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls!
sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now the
ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon
swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a
cork into a hogshead. And then for the
land-service, to see how the bear tore out his
shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said
his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an
end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned
it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the
sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared
and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than
the sea or weather.

[Anonymous No.18405393]

>>18402880
Boring book. Conrad was trying much too hard with this one. Victory is much much better.

[Anonymous No.18405959]

I saw a chart floating around titled "if Nautical Nonsense is something you wish"
Can't seem to find it though

[Anonymous No.18406112]

>>18402532
This is a fantastic book. I listened to the Librivox audiobook during my shitty urban commute.
Lord Jim is another good nautical adventure.
I really enjoyed Simon Leys' essays about the sea and maritime authors.

[S10241875 No.18406169]

>>18402476
South Sea Tales (1911) by Jack London
The Journals of Captain Cook - James R. Cook

[Anonymous No.18406179]

>>18404972
macht Sinn. Irgendwie klang das Wort so fremd.

[Anonymous No.18406257]

>>18404274
>>Heart of Darkness, to a degree (especially the first chapter has some meaningful insights about life on the sea)
"Seamen? They are more of the stay-at-home kind"

[Anonymous No.18406468]

>>18402476
I don't have a recommendation for you, op, but thanks for posting.
My dad had a copy of that painting in our living room. Today is his birthday, and the day he died, 7 years ago. I saw your thread in the catalog and cried. Maybe it's like he's trying to comfort me.
In any case, he always loved Master and Commander. I'm just now getting back into reading, so maybe that series is in my future, after I go through some more of the top 100 or something. More than likely he would just read his copies of Wooden Sailboat or Sailing magazines. He couldn't concentrate on reading for a long time after his transplant. When I was little, before I could really read, I loved looking at all of the layouts of the sailboats in the ads with him, how many beds they could pack in, what the galley was like, etc. I think it's also why I'm so fascinated by tiny houses now?
Anyways, thanks again, op
/blog

[Anonymous No.18407621]

>>18405959
https://i.imgur.com/foj7esJ.png

there is also eric newby

[Anonymous No.18407686]

>>18407621
for non fiction i made this list

[Anonymous No.18407715]

Shilling the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Only novel Poe ever wrote and I just finished reading it 2 days ago

[Anonymous No.18407802]

>>18402476
Sea Fever
By John Masefield

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

[Anonymous No.18407823]

>>18402476
Based general

[Anonymous No.18407877]

>>18402476
Las Inquietudes de Shanti Andía

[Anonymous No.18407917]

Man, summer too always gets me in the mood for some seafaring literature.

[Anonymous No.18407995]

>>18406257
love that quote

[Anonymous No.18408003]

>>18407686
blessed list, saving it for later

[Anonymous No.18408043]

comfy thread

[Anonymous No.18408103]

The Opposing shore while not strictly about the sea uses it as a very good narrative device. There is also a beautiful sailing scene in it.

[Anonymous No.18408258]

>>18402476
>>18402476
>The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil, by Hans Staden
It's a 1556 autobiographical book by a German mercenary working for the Spanish fleet that shipwrecks in the coast of Brazil, is captured by a cannibal tribe, lives among them for months, witness many fellow Christians being devoured and is almost eaten many times (the Tupis, the indians, only ate their enemies, and, since Staden was red-head, they weren't sure if he was Portuguese or not. He ended up gaining their confidence though a lot of luck, or, in his words, "the help of God"). It's one of the best primary sources on cannibalism we have.

It's quite short. There is a translation by Richard Burton available at archive.org. He knew the place very well from when he was a diplomat in Brazil, so his notes are interesting.

[Anonymous No.18408267]

>>18408258
forgot the pic. It's a print from the first edition.

[Anonymous No.18408815]

>>18402488
pretty much the only modern English epic in my opinion

[Anonymous No.18408878]

A Book of The Sea, short story collection by Egaeus Press. Weird fiction.

[Anonymous No.18408988]

>>18408103
did you read a translation? i read it in English and the language was overwrought but that didnt detract from my enjoying it but i thought it might to some readers. curious what the language/imagery is like in the original french.

also not quite sure aldo's expedition is enough of a nautical adventure to interest OP but the book itself is still worth a read.

[Anonymous No.18409283]

Idk, just listen to "a pirate looks at 40"

[Anonymous No.18409484]

The Death Ship by B. Traven, the same guy who wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

[Anonymous No.18409528]

>>18402476
the old man and the sea

[Anonymous No.18409756]

>>18402476
This anon had a decent starter pack.

[Anonymous No.18409779]

Mishima "The Sound of Waves". Very charming novel albeit a tad campy (which is normal coming from Mishima).

[Anonymous No.18409792]

>>18402476
wreck of the whale ship essex (what moby dick was loosely based around) its tight as shit.

>>18403309
how is typee? i remember starting it but stopped because it seemed like all the encyclopedic sailing parts of moby dick without the fun adventure parts.

>>18403680
look up gustav dore and rudolf schafer

[Anonymous No.18409824]

>>18402476
Junger's notes on shipwrecks
>>/lit/thread/S17678844#p17688791

[Anonymous No.18409855]

Any sea shanties or books on sea shanties?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41StpTqf7G0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

[Anonymous No.18409950]

>>18407621
heres the chart some anon made

>>18409824
nice

[Anonymous No.18409961]

>>18409950
too much Melville. outside of Moby-Dick his nautical stuff is insipid.

[Anonymous No.18410145]

>>18403074
reminds me of that Samuel Johnson quote
>Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

[Anonymous No.18410236]

>>18402476
Google it.

[Anonymous No.18410318]

>>18404274
I really loved The Rover.

[Anonymous No.18410326]

>>18410318
Where did you read it, bro? I can't find a copy

[Anonymous No.18410353]

>>18410326
I didn't realize it was hard to find. I got lucky, found a 98 year old copy at my local used bookstore for 5 bucks.

[Anonymous No.18410368]

>>18410353
Yea, it's not in print by any major publisher currently. Not even Dover. So you definitely lucked out.

[Anonymous No.18410999]

>>18408988
I read it in French. I can see why you say it's overwrought, I'd say Gracq has a very strong style that borders prose poetry a lot of the times but it always flows well and feels relevant. As such I'd say he's always on the verge of being too heavy but manages to pull it off.
>also not quite sure aldo's expedition is enough of a nautical adventure to interest OP but the book itself is still worth a read.
true, I just felt like shilling it

[Anonymous No.18411034]

>>18405393
I loved the atmosphere he was building in the early chapters before they ship out and are settling in for their last night of sleep in harbor. Yes it’s a little slow but very comfy
And the storm makes up for the slow pace at the beginning

[Anonymous No.18411045]

[Anonymous No.18411068]

Cambridge Library Collection seems to be specialized in this kind of literature

[Anonymous No.18411074]

>>18404368
Is it comfy?

>>18409950
This chart is too filled with mainstream shit

[Anonymous No.18411089]

>>18402880
I thought it was buck breakingly good

[Anonymous No.18411440]

>>18402476
Always liked James Clavells books. Not exactly about the sea, but many of the stories take place on ships, trading, etc. Taipan is pretty good, 19th century HK traders

[Anonymous No.18411481]

>>18403309
>>18403323
>This has been my favorite aesthetic lately.
It’s because of summer. Happens to me every summer. Then by winter, I wished I was a mountain sheep herder.

[Anonymous No.18411579]

>>18408815
It's not modern it's Romantic

[Anonymous No.18411610]

>>18403309
>Sea Wolf by Jack London was kino
Seconding Sea Wolf. London's best work.

[Anonymous No.18411729]

Italy has so many of these. Too bad nothing is translated.

[Anonymous No.18411957]

The Frigate Pallada by Goncharov

[Anonymous No.18412409]

>>18408815
You are retarded and do not have a clue about the epic. Melville literally wrote an epic poem after Moby Dick, Clarel. Would imagine it counts as a modern English epic

[Anonymous No.18412464]

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe. Don't let the cover fool you. Shit's grim.

[Anonymous No.18412542]

>>18411610
I liked Sea Wolf but have always thought of it as sort of a less good Moby-Dick. I think Martin Eden is London’s best work.

[Anonymous No.18412597]

>>18402476
Le Sea Wolf by Jack London

[Anonymous No.18412705]

>>18411074
>mainstream shit
retard

[Anonymous No.18413565]

>>18403074
Melville is really something else

[Anonymous No.18413618]

Whitman do be having plenty to say about the sea. Read Song of Myself and all its preceding material from Leaves of Grass.

[Anonymous No.18414593]

>>18413618
Came here to recommend Whitman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANMioZCpGQ

[Anonymous No.18414620]

>>18408043
Top comfy my dude

[Anonymous No.18414834]

I picked up a galley copy of picrel from my colleges free book shelf years ago. It's very comfy, I re-read it almost every summer

[Anonymous No.18415049]

>tfw you'll never go whaling with your new head hunting friend.
Why even live bros.

[Anonymous No.18415087]

are there any water world type books? about a planet that is almost all water but has people on it?

[Anonymous No.18415335]

bump

[Anonymous No.18415402]

Ahahaha Does someone drinking SEA-men count? Ahahahaha like yknoe... Sex? Ahahaha (this is a sex joke if you don't get it btw)

[Anonymous No.18416094]

>>18402476
>>18415087
THE DROWNED WORLD J.G. BALLARD

[Anonymous No.18416382]

>>18408815
It’s okay anon I know what you mean. It’s the American Odyssey

[Anonymous No.18416390]

>>18408815
The Idylls of the King

[Anonymous No.18416717]

>>18402880

[Anonymous No.18416725]

I enjoyed this but that cover blurb is batshit insane.

[Anonymous No.18417104]

best uboat diary ever, by a radio operator with more than a dozen patrols experience

[Anonymous No.18417138]

>>18411481
Lol every August I go on vacation to the New Jersey shore and resolve to myself that I’m going to become a fisherman down in the outer banks or the Florida keys

Then in October I want to teach Classics in a New England prep school and go grouse hunting in the great North Woods with an English setter and an old Purdey side by side 12 gauge.

Mostly I just sit online all day.

[Anonymous No.18417222]

Hornblower is the OG. Very good still, especially the first few.
The Aubrey-Maturin novels are great successors. I recently realized that O'brian set out to create an anti-Hornblower. Aubrey is big and and bluff and led by passion, in stark contrast to Hornblower. Or take for example the first chapter of Master and Commander, Aubrey in passionate ecstasy at a concert, a direct challenge to the atonal Hornblower who loathes music. Even the very fact of having Maturin on board, not just a surgeon but a doctor, is a direct opposite of Hornblowers constant lack of competent medical staff.

[Anonymous No.18418467]

>>18402476
Bumping

[Anonymous No.18420051]

bump, you fucking mongrels

[Anonymous No.18420232]

>>18402476
Joseph Conrad's Youth

[Anonymous No.18420664]

The Seafarer, short poem by Pound
>>18404274
Read a lot of Conrad and agree but isn’t Nostromo his least nautical book?

[Anonymous No.18420670]

[Anonymous No.18421613]

>>18402476

[Anonymous No.18422979]

>>18420670
based

[Anonymous No.18423213]

>>18412542
I don't really see the comparison between Sea Wolf and Moby-Dick. Of course it is no Moby-Dick, nothing is, but it isn't really trying to be. While Moby-Dick is the attempt to capture the entire world in the picture of a small vessel chasing a mad beast, Sea Wolf is a much smaller endevaour. It is one man versus another, or one man versus the ideas of another. Ismael does not struggle with Ahab the way Hump struggles with Larsen. Ahab is part of the great composition of Moby-Dick, while Wolf Larsen is the entirety of The Sea Wolf.
Is Moby-Dick superior to the Sea Wolf? It absolutely is. But the Sea Wolf is not trying to be Moby-Dick.

I can respect the opinion to prefer Martin Eden, but I do not agree. Anyway, have you read John Barleycorn? While we are at the topic of London's autobiographical novels. (Sorry if this is somewhat off-topic for the /sea/ thread.)

[Anonymous No.18423230]

>>18403074
>With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
I like how entering a ship is equated to suicide here. The ocean becomes the afterlife.

[Anonymous No.18423265]

>>18402476
In the Heart of the Sea

[Anonymous No.18423944]

[Anonymous No.18423952]

>>18423265
who's that
>>18423944
the box is a must read for everyone, plough through it anons

[Anonymous No.18423955]

I assume everyone already read this, right?

[Anonymous No.18424123]

>>18423955
cringe

[Anonymous No.18424128]

>>18423952
>who's that
how new

[Anonymous No.18424391]

Lawrence Sargent Hall's "Stowaway", winner of the 1962 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel

[Anonymous No.18424725]

William Hodgson was a sailor in irl and wrote some sea stories, but they were horror.

[Anonymous No.18426417]

>>18423952
>who's that
That's forestanon

[Anonymous No.18426618]

>>18402488
>not the lit annotated version

[Anonymous No.18427951]

>>18426618
The fabled legend

[Anonymous No.18428066]

The master mariner by Monsarrat

[Anonymous No.18428138]

>>18427951
is that still available somewhere?

[Anonymous No.18428942]

>>18428138
Not finished yet (ever?)