Maritime

Maritime fiction has several names - Nautical Fiction, Naval Fiction, Sea Fiction, Sea Stories or Naval Adventure Fiction. It is a genre of literature with a setting at or near the sea, focusing on human relationships to the sea and sea voyages. Nautical culture is highlighted. The settings vary widely, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, sea ports, etc.

Maritime fiction may focus on oceanic wildlife such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851), or fantasy creatures and legends such as the Mermaid or Kraken.

Common themes include the sub-genres Shipwreck and Pirates.

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New Releases Tagged "Maritime"

The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Quantum Tempest (The Oregon Files #19)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
The Sea Captain's Wife
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
The Oceans and the Stars
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Treasure Island
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Old Man and the Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Monster Is No More by Chris BrydaDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesCurse of the Black Avenger by Eddie       JonesLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Up on the deck
50 books — 35 voters

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Phyllis FraserThe Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith WhartonBloody Ghost Stories by Brianna Stoddard
Ghost Story Collections
167 books — 48 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlJaws by Peter BenchleyPoseidon’s Children by Michael  WestThe Odyssey by Homer
The Sea
129 books — 36 voters

Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Girl Who Came Home by Hazel GaynorThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeFateful by Claudia GrayRaise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
Fiction about the Titanic
147 books — 201 voters


It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Helen Scales
The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sigh. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.
Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

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