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Originally Posted by Anaraxes

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "nautical folklore". Presumably something more fantastic than the Aubrey-Maturin books or Horatio Hornblower.

• Sinbad (might as well start with the classics)
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Gulliver's Travels
• Peter Pan
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (fantastical, but presumably more SF)
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Red Seas Under Red Skies (Scott Lynch's Gentlemen Bastards #2)
• The King's Buccaneer (one of Feist's Mikdemia novels)
• Assassin's Fate (#3 of Robin Hobbs' Fitz and Fool books) is the most nautical. (Seaborne invaders are important in all of them, but the first two don't spend a lot of time at sea.)
• Liveship Trilogy (More Hobbs, supposed to be about ships and magic, but I haven't read this one)
• The Princess Bride (okay, the nautical bits are mostly offstage)
• Life of Pi (maybe "magical realism" instead of "fantasy", but I find it hard to distinguish those two)
• The Aeronauts' Windlass (Jim Butcher) Airships and steampunky, but it wouldn't be hard to pare it back to traditional fantasy decoration

The Odyssey and Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides also seem relevant.