Sea voyages

I have read the ship of brides, the tin ticket, the ship of shores and all titanic books, can anyone suggest anything else, thanks

You could try To The Ends of The Earth by William Golding, in which a young man travels to the colony of New South Wales at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Even better, go for Patrick O'Brian's wonderful Aubrey/Maturin series, starting with Master and Commander, set in the same period.

For something rather different Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth will give you a graphic account of life aboard a slave ship.

And there's always Moby Dick, which I could never get into myself.

>2 dajashby: Thanks for the recommendation I've ordered Sacred Hunger from the local library.

The Sea Wolf and Captains Courageous are two more sea-faring classics, ones I've yet to read myself.

If you like sea warfare, the Hornblower series by C.S. Forester is an excellent read

You may want to look into some of the works of Dudley Pope.

Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook

Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Marryat

On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien by John Masefield

A journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama

The Poseidon Adventure - I found the descriptions in the book far more absorbing that the film.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Voyage of the Frog Gary Paulsen
Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry

I'd second the recommendations for:
Moby Dick
The Sea Wolf
Two Years Before the Mast.

And how about Joseph Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon, and Youth; Melville's Billy Budd. I liked them all.

I liked Ahab's Wife. It's not exclusively about sea voyages, but the protagonist's adventures on a whaling ship are pretty central to the story.

Thank you all

Earlier this year I read, and loved, We, the Drowned by Danish author Carsten Jensen. The book follows several generations of Danish sailing life, and also describes life and changes in the maritime town they all come from.

Saw your thread title and immediately thought Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl.

There's Robin Lee Graham's memoir about his solo sail around the world when he was a teenager, which was extensively covered by The National Geographic at the time. The book is Dove and he co-wrote it.

Of course, the incomparable Aubrey-Maturin 18th C. Royal Navy novels by Patrick O'Brian are the ne plus ultra of military tall ships books.

Another classic of maritime writing is Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea but it's less voyage and more World War II. He's a compelling writer who focuses mostly on sea stories but is well known for other kinds of writing, too. For instance, The Kappillan of Malta, also set in WWII.

And that classic work of great fiction about a passenger ship voyage from SA to Germany on the eve of WWII by Katherine Anne Porter -- Ship of Fools. Should be one of the 1001 books you read before you die, if it isn't.

I'll second the CS Forrester (Hornblower) and Dudley Pope (Ramage) books, and add Alexander Kent's Bolitho novels. All of them have been very inspirational to me.

Kent's real name, incidentally, is Douglas Reeman and he wrote a number of excellent novels about the Royal Navy during World War II.

Don't forget White Jacket by Herman Melville. It's a must reading for any sailor and contributed significantly (I understand) to outlawing flogging in the U.S. Navy. Great book, great insights!