I started 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and then got onto a shipwreck tangent by first reading The Wager (harrowing read of 1740s shipwreck at the end of the world), followed by Lansing's Endurance, about Shackleton's ill fated Antarctic expedition in 1914.
Looking to wrap it up with another gripping book in the same vein. Maybe something about Franklin's expedition? Open to your recommendations about anything similar!
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Moby Dick
The Perfect Storm.
Kingdom of Ice
You might enjoy Tristan Jones. He was a larger than life character who wrote books about his purportedly true, but highly fictionalized sailing adventures that are amazing and entertaining if you aren’t offended by the fact that they aren’t necessarily true. He has a lot of books, including a couple of straight up novels, but the three sailing adventure books to start with are *Ice!*, *Saga of a Wayward Sailor*, and *The Incredible Voyage*.
There’s also Anthony Dalton’s biography, *Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones*, which parses the fact from the fiction in Jones’s life and books.
The 20 volume Aubrey /Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson. Set aboard The Beagle a fictionalised biography of Robert Fitz Roy the ships captain whilst Charles Darwin was on the exploration of discovery that lead to the Theory of Evolution.