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A novel idea is floating in the East River, or was.
My spin on it is this. Name three of your favorite “maritime” books, or works, to put into a maritime collection of books . . . Don’t overthink it . . . they can be obvious or obscure or a combination of both. They can be books for kids or adults.
And my three are:
The Lost Sea, Jan de Hartog.
We the Drowned, Carsten Jensen
Maqroll the Gaviero, Álvaro Mutis
Photos, WVD. Thx, Nate Austin.
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August 8, 2021 at 11:05 am
urbie
My Old Man and the Sea, David Hays.
August 8, 2021 at 11:05 am
truckertim
The Old Man and the Sea The Sea-Wolf Deadly Straits
August 8, 2021 at 11:16 am
sleepboot
Two years before the mast by Richard Dana
Captain Jan/ Hollands Glory by Jan de Hartog
The Real Cruel Sea by Richard Woodman
August 8, 2021 at 11:52 am
burgeev
Grey Seas Under Farley Mowatt ; Looking For A Ship, John McPhee ; The Last Grain Race, Eric Newby.
August 8, 2021 at 11:59 am
mageb
“The Box,” any of the Hornblower series, and “The Only Way to Cross.”
August 8, 2021 at 12:42 pm
Les Sonnenmark
“Sailing Alone Around the World” by Joshua Slocum
“A Man and His Ship” (a bio of nav. arch. Wm. Francis Gibbs) by Steven Ujifusa
“Steaming to Bamboola” by Christopher Buckley
August 8, 2021 at 1:03 pm
Viv
My top three books about the sea:
Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton
The Essex by Nathan Philbrick
The Curve of Time by M Blanchett- Wylie
August 12, 2021 at 10:18 pm
Marie 371
Yay, Scuffy 😊!
August 8, 2021 at 1:21 pm
Daniel Meeter
The Lost Sea, Jan de Hartog
Moby Dock, Herman Melville
Desolation Island, Patrick O’Brien (for the whole series)
August 8, 2021 at 2:19 pm
BillyTheHat
Perfect Storm, Sebastian Unger
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
by John Rousmanier
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
August 8, 2021 at 3:16 pm
William Lafferty
The Wreck of the Mary Deare, Hammond Innes
The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad (short story)
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
The Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic, George W. Hilton
Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers, George W. Hilton
August 9, 2021 at 2:12 pm
tugster
Thx all for your choices. New writers you’ve pointed me toward are Hammond Innes, George W. Hilton, John Rousmanier, M Blanchette Wylie, and R. E. McDermott.
August 9, 2021 at 2:32 pm
BillyTheHat
Will, Fastnet is an amazing story! I believe it’s the same storm that is featured in Perfect Storm. Hope you enjoy the book.
August 9, 2021 at 3:20 pm
tugster
https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Fastnet%2C+Force+10%3A+The+Deadliest+Storm+in+the+History+of+Modern+Sailing-p-9780393308655 Wow! Thx. It’s 1979 though.
August 9, 2021 at 6:23 pm
Abubaker Jandan
A beautiful post thank you so much