30 Best

Maritime Books

1

Shadow Tyrants

2

Havana Storm

3

The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian

4

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

5

Piranha

6

The Titanic: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Famous Ship from 1907 to Today

7

Pirate

8

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

9

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

10

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

11

The Edge of Worlds

12

The First Fleet

13

Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men

14

Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

15

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

16

Master and Commander

17

Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

18

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

19

Treasure Island

20

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

21

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

22

The Old Man and the Sea

23

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

24

Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea

25

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

26

Beat to Quarters

27

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

28

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

29

Hornblower and the Hotspur