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This paper is an excellent survey of the main geometrical results related to Nambu-Poisson brackets. The concept of a Nambu-Poisson structure was introduced by \textit{L. Takhtajan} [Commun. Math. Phys. 160, No. 2, 295--315 (1994; Zbl 0808.70015)] in order to find an axiomatic formalism for an \(n\)-bracket operation proposed by \textit{Y. Nambu} [Phys. Rev. D (3) 7, 2405--2412 (1973; Zbl 1027.70503)] to generalize Hamiltonian mechanics. A Nambu-Poisson manifold of order \(n\) is a manifold \(M\) endowed with a skew-symmetric \(n\)-bracket of functions \(\{ , \dots , \}\) satisfying the Leibniz rule and the fundamental identity (a generalization of the Jacobi identity). The Poisson manifolds are just the Nambu-Poisson manifolds of order \(2\). If \(M\) is a Nambu-Poisson manifold of order \(n\), one can introduce the Nambu-Poisson \(n\)-vector \(P\) which is characterized by the relation \(\{f_{1}, \dots , f_{n}\} = P (df_{1}, \dots , df_{n})\), for \(f_{1}, \dots , f_{n} \in C^{\infty}(M, R)\). The definition of Hamiltonian vector fields and alternative geometric characterization and structure of Nambu-Poisson tensors are reviewed in Section 2. Section 3 is devoted to Nambu-Poisson-Lie groups and last section is related with some quantization aspects.