Andre Braugher Has a Homework Assignment for You How exactly do you prepare to play the defiant captain of a nuclear submarine who goes rogue? If you’re Andre Braugher, you read. “I got a stack of books and tried to figure out who sea captains are, what life on the sea is like and what goes into the making of a captain who can endure this kind of exile,” he says of preparing for “Last Resort,” an ABC series about a sub captain who commandeers a tropical island. “It’s an apprenticeship by proxy.” Should you ever find yourself in a similar position, here is Braugher’s recommended reading list: Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union, by Peter Sasgen Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship, by Tom Clancy and John Gresham Odyssey, by Homer The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party, by George R. Stewart Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea, by Steven Callahan Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian

Andre Braugher Has a Homework Assignment for You

How exactly do you prepare to play the defiant captain of a nuclear submarine who goes rogue? If you’re Andre Braugher, you read. “I got a stack of books and tried to figure out who sea captains are, what life on the sea is like and what goes into the making of a captain who can endure this kind of exile,” he says of preparing for “Last Resort,” an ABC series about a sub captain who commandeers a tropical island. “It’s an apprenticeship by proxy.” Should you ever find yourself in a similar position, here is Braugher’s recommended reading list:

Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew

Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union, by Peter Sasgen

Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship, by Tom Clancy and John Gresham

Odyssey, by Homer

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party, by George R. Stewart

Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea, by Steven Callahan

Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian