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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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Quantum Tempest (The Oregon Files #19)
The Sea Captain's Wife
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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
Hellburner (Oregon Files #16)
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
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 Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John HowgegoThose Vulgar Tubes by Joe J. Simmons IIIIngenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. FrankShipwreck Anthropology by Richard A. GouldShip Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by Roy R. Behrens
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