Book reviews & excerpts from books with a seagoing theme - both fiction & nonfiction
On The High Seas
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Wild and Distant Seas: A Novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
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The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story (A Novel)
by Mark Helprin
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of ...
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
by Helen Czerski
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A scientist's exploration of the "ocean engine"—the physics behind the ocean's systems—and why it matters.
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Nicked: A Novel
by M.T. Anderson
Hardcover: Jul 2024
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint
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Loot: A Novel
by Tania James
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty ...
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
by Briony Cameron
Hardcover: Jun 2024
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by Hampton Sides
Hardcover: Apr 2024
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this ...
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Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
by Hannah Stowe
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: May 2025
A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Winner: BookBrowse Nonfiction Award 2023
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The ...
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Luck of the Titanic
by Stacey Lee
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
From the critically-acclaimed author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
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The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It
by Helen Scales
Hardcover: Jul 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
"The oceans have always shaped human lives," writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. "However, one way or another, the future ocean is the ...
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
by Laurence Bergreen
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Mar 2022
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen ...
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