Culture

The books, videos, podcasts and playlists we’re bringing on board this month.

The books, videos and podcasts we’re bringing on board this month.

Here are the sea stories we’re reading, watching and listening to this month.

Here are the sea stories we’re reading, watching and listening to this month.

Here’s what we’re reading, watching and listening to this month.

With a combination of keen detail and Impressionist abstraction, artist and illustrator Rolf Klep created this compelling image of sailors on a lively sea.

Recently reprinted by Patagonia from the original 1978 first edition, Audrey Sutherland’s Paddling My Own Canoe is the story of her quest to explore the remote waters on the northeast side of Molokai, Hawaii.

Whether it’s a beautiful varnished mahogany runabout cutting across a glassy lake or a sleek center console taking on a tumultuous inlet, Chris-Craft boats have an unmistakable look and impeccable style, in large part because the builder has been refining its designs for 144 years.

Click a button on your computer screen today and in a couple of days, a smartphone arrives from China.

Audrey Sutherland decided at age 60 that she’d undertake a solo, summerlong kayak voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska.

More than 70 islands dot the seascape between New York Harbor and Fishers Island Sound on the New England coast.

Packed with powerful photographs of shipwrecks from all over the world, Stefano Banazzo’s 144-page Wrecks: The Memory Of The Sea commemorates these ships’ histories and the sailors who ran them.