Books like The Custom of the Sea by Neil Hanson

In Dan Simmons’ chilling historical adventure, the Franklin expedition’s steamships Terror and Erebus are trapped in the Arctic for two years, where crew face starvation, mutiny, and a nameless terror lurking in the ice.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 National Book Award winner chronicles the harrowing ordeal of the Essex whale ship crew that survived a near-sinking and subsequent harrowing journey on the ocean's surface.

Phillip's Blind and Timothy's Compass: The Cay

Two young friends navigate the perilous 1912 Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, learning survival skills and the power of solidarity.

Nathaniel Philbrick's Sea of Glory: A Story of Exploration, Discovery, and the Naming of the New World

In the 1740s, the brigantine Wager, separated from Commodore Anson’s squadron, is wrecked off Cape Horn; its crew survives a harsh ordeal on the coast of Chile before reaching Valparaíso.

A comprehensive collection of William Shakespeare’s major works, including 38 plays—from tragedies like Hamlet and Macbeth to comedies such as Twelfth Night—and 5 poems, sonnets, and occasional lyric pieces.

A harrowing tale of survival on a remote island after the 1710 wreck of the merchant ship Nottingham, where stranded crew endure harsh winter, scarce supplies, and extreme measures before rescue.

Spanning the globe from ancient times to the present, Shipwrecks describes hundreds of famous and lesser-known nautical tragedies, recounting in detail tales of spectacular heroics and fatal disaster. Wrecks like those of the Titanic and the Lusitania are the stuff of legend, but what about the hundreds of others throughout history, their unique stories, their causes and their influence on maritime history? Shipwrecks documents many of these while offering dozens of entries on related topics, such as reefs, radar, storms and capsizing. More than just a catalog of the world's best-known maritime disasters, Shipwrecks captures the drama and historical significance of these calamities. Over 80 charts and illustrations highlight this fully cross-referenced and indexed work. From among hundreds of shipwrecks, author David Ritchie has selected only those of particular historical, cultural and technological importance, those that have, among other things, shocked the world, moved nations to war and led to improvements in nautical design. Shipwrecks brings to life the most significant disasters in maritime history, from the wrecks of Columbus' Santa Maria and the Andrea Doria to those of the French liner Normandie and the British frigate Phoenix. Over 400 entries depict in vivid detail the captains, the ships, the causes and the casualties associated with these tragedies, making Shipwrecks a useful reference as well as an entertaining and educational one.

"A condensation of my two-volume Admiral of the ocean sea, published at the same time. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise the two editions are identical."--Page xx.