What is the second-best entry in Naval Literature?

What is the second-best entry in Naval Literature?

I say second because it's obvious the best entry is pic-related

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Billy Budd

>Americans

Naval literature literally existed before your nation was a thing, so how about you fuck off?

Master and Commander
Primary source material from people like James Cook. Travel literature, both real, fake, and fake presented as real, were huge in the 18th century and its worth it to immerse yourself in stuff actually written during the age of exploration because, objectively, there was no cooler time and place in history than as a European sailor exploring a bunch of exotic, unknown shit and living a life of true adventure and glory

And yet we still have the best one.

Stay mad britfag.

Read Jack London.

you mean maritime literature. Pequod is not part of a navy.

the catalogue of ships in the iliad

>how about you fuck off?
You might be right, but you're not helping yourself.

>Start reading Moby-Dick finally.
>It's pretty funny and really good; gives a wonderful sense of mid 19th century New England.
>Think that Yea Forums was over reacting about MUH CETELOGY.
>Middle third of the books is literally just an encyclopedia of whales and the color white.
I'll never doubt you again Yea Forums.

The Old Man and The Sea.

It’s the best part, isn’t it?

It's not that long for shits sake. Also is fun

It really is about 150 pages worth of cetelogy with little progression in the plot.
It's not bad, it's just a bit too long.

The people who complain about the cetology portions of Moby-Dick probably suck off Brandon Sanderson over muh worldbuildin.

Conrad's books

Let’s not be pedantic, please

The Anathemata, easily

The Sea Wolf

Billy Budd is about a British sailor on a British ship and is a masterpiece you pleb.

t.britfag

Two years before the mast

Can you recc any of the travel lit you mentioned?

Are the cetology sections fun to read?

Yes, and then I found contemporary cetology readings to compare and contrast with Melville's (accurate enough for its time) mid-1800's account before carrying on with the novel.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

>genre shit

Heart of Darkness

you might as well call the Odyssey, Beowulf, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray "genre shit"

Not prepared to say any definite rankings but to have and have not was really enjoyable. Does anyone have any naval lit that focuses on modern frieghters?

Cringe

The N-- of the Narcissus

The Huzzah Dolphin part is the funniest part of the book

Some of the best parts of the novel.

>N--
Nigger?

is Tai Pan any good ?

BOOK III. (Duodecimo), CHAPTER 1. (Huzza Porpoise).—This is the common porpoise found almost all over the globe. The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them. I call him thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd.

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Travel diaries of Samuel Clemens

Nice

But... they are

Horcynus Orca, obviously.