Five top nautical yarns

Herman Wouk's novels include The Caine Mutiny (one of the best books on World War II) and The Winds of War.

His new book is The Lawgiver.

Wouk named five notable nautical yarns for the Wall Street Journal, including:The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
by Joseph Conrad (1897)

Nobody, but nobody, could write about storms at sea like Conrad. Nor could anyone drench a plot crackling with action—that of