Best Sea Stories

thorold: The book that launched every pirate cliché we know and love

thorold: Just to save us all clicking on all twenty-odd of them

thorold: "And good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man."

thorold: Classic pre-WWI spy story involving lot of small boat sailing in the Frisian islands

thorold: Early PO'B, a classic shipwreck story

thorold: Middle-aged engineer becomes action hero in Pacific salvage crisis

thorold: smuggling on the South coast

thorold: A bit stodgy for modern tastes, but Marryat is one writer of sea stories who actually served in the Georgian navy

thorold: Story set on an escort corvette in WWII, obviously written as propaganda, but still a good read.

thorold: Another early PO'B (pre-Aubrey)

thorold: The Swallows on the North Sea

thorold: The Swallows and Amazons go to sea and get caught up in a story inspired by Treasure Island. (Or maybe they made it all up)

thorold: With Golding at the helm, you know this voyage is not going to be a jolly one

thorold: Like the film, but even grittier

thorold: Postmodern noir thriller about salvaging Jesuit treasure off the coast of Spain

thorold : Classic tale of life as a common sailor in the 19th century, but normally considered as non-fiction