The Graveyard of Nameless Boats - Arturo Pérez-Reverte - book

A sailor exiled from the sea, madly in love with a dangerous and beautiful woman. A brigantine submerged for more than two centuries in the glassy darkness of the Mediterranean. An ancient nautical chart that never ceases to reveal its enigmas. A secret whose fragments are scattered among the yellowing bundles of libraries and museums, arousing the covetousness of unscrupulous wreck hunters. And a fabulous story of love and adventure whose unforgettable heroine is the sea.

From Melville to Stevenson, from Conrad to Patrick O'Brian, all the great literature of the sea comes to life in the pages of this fascinating and marvelous novel, like a hymn to the magical gold of dreams and a metaphor for the dark side lurking in each of us.