Hi, I'm looking for fiction or non-fiction books set at sea, like The Terror from Dan Simmons. Im particularly interested in the interaction between people in complicated and/or survival situations.
*Solomon Gursky Was Here* by Mordecai Richler contains some pretty harrowing descriptions of the same Franklin expedition
Pierre Burton’s *The Arctic Grail* is the classic narrative history of arctic exploration
BernardFerguson1944 on
*The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea* by Robert Trumbull.
*Out of the Smoke: The Story of a Sail* [Battle of Sunda Strait] by Ray Parkin, Chief Petty Officer, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.A.S. *Perth*, Royal Australian Navy.
Admirable-Brief-984 on
The North Water, by Ian McGuire
dirkdastardly on
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is a nonfiction book about 20 19th-century whalers who struggle to survive in a lifeboat after a whale destroys their ship. Herman Melville partly based his novel Moby Dick on the incident.
amalthea108 on
I just finished The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, which is sci fi mostly set in the now, but there are a bunch of flashbacks to stories of the men on the Terror and Erebus.
polly8020 on
A marriage at sea
pchubbs on
Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Story of Ernest Shackleton voyage to the South Pole.
WakingOwl1 on
The Worst Journey in the World from a member if Scott’s South Pole expedition.
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*Solomon Gursky Was Here* by Mordecai Richler contains some pretty harrowing descriptions of the same Franklin expedition
Pierre Burton’s *The Arctic Grail* is the classic narrative history of arctic exploration
*The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea* by Robert Trumbull.
*Out of the Smoke: The Story of a Sail* [Battle of Sunda Strait] by Ray Parkin, Chief Petty Officer, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.A.S. *Perth*, Royal Australian Navy.
The North Water, by Ian McGuire
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is a nonfiction book about 20 19th-century whalers who struggle to survive in a lifeboat after a whale destroys their ship. Herman Melville partly based his novel Moby Dick on the incident.
I just finished The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, which is sci fi mostly set in the now, but there are a bunch of flashbacks to stories of the men on the Terror and Erebus.
A marriage at sea
Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Story of Ernest Shackleton voyage to the South Pole.
The Worst Journey in the World from a member if Scott’s South Pole expedition.