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Anonymous Fri Jun 17 00:54:44 2022 No.20536847 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best book about sailors and sailing other than Moby Dick?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 00:57:29 2022 No.20536864 File: 127 KB, 216x345, 92354757-2577-44BD-8F94-B12476B539E6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don’t know but sailors are fucking based

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 01:14:19 2022 No.20536921 File: 258 KB, 1008x1500, 81OAQuuWDZL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The whole series is great

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 01:21:19 2022 No.20536950 >>20536921 Thanks

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 01:21:36 2022 No.20536952 >>20536921 This so much. I reread it so many times

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 05:36:04 2022 No.20537886 File: 53 KB, 393x630, R (24).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lord Jim Aubrey-Maturin Series The Pilot Sharpe's Trafalgar Pic related

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 05:52:00 2022 No.20537913 >>20536847 Anything Joseph Conrad

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 10:40:41 2022 No.20538526 Lusiads, naturally.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 11:28:52 2022 No.20538621 A very large part of "Wyvern" by A. A. Attansio is about pirates, sea battles and sailing ships. It is one of the greatest historical novels I know, but not very well kown for some reason. It is a great book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 11:49:34 2022 No.20538674 File: 3.49 MB, 1300x2303, Nautical_Classics.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 11:53:07 2022 No.20538684 Nicholas Monsarrat's The Master Mariner is a pretty fun read if you're into naval history. It is sadly uncompleted but the parts that do exist do a good job of bringing some of the key British naval figures to life

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 12:24:49 2022 No.20538792 >>20536847 Real accounts written by (relatively) modern sailors are surprisingly engaging. Try Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own or classic Joshua Slocum's books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 19:57:11 2022 No.20540650 >>20536847 Just started reading Southey's Biography of Nelson, pretty good desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 20:10:42 2022 No.20540725 >>20536847 20,000 league under the sea

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 21:23:34 2022 No.20541130 File: 8 KB, 182x277, index.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] a sadly underappreciated classic of american literature

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 21:46:12 2022 No.20541242 >>20536921 This so much. I reread it so many times

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 17 23:12:11 2022 No.20541680 >>20536847 Two Years Before the Mast if you're interested in nonfiction.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 18 00:20:07 2022 No.20541936 File: 64 KB, 580x580, Thomas-Cochrane-1a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] memoirs of a fighting captain by admiral thomas cochrane

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 18 00:27:27 2022 No.20541961 File: 168 KB, 907x1360, 7191eYAuz1L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20536847 Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison