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 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
Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleJaws by Peter BenchleyRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Odyssey by HomerA Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Sea Is Calling ...
63 books — 10 voters
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Maritime Classics
277 books — 97 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieCurse of the Black Avenger by Eddie       Jones
Pirate Books
76 books — 47 voters

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareSomething in the Water by Catherine SteadmanShipped by Angie HockmanThe Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart TurtonPrincess Charming by Jane Heller
Suspense At Sea
31 books — 13 voters
FEAR IS THE KEY By ALISTAIR MacLEAN Fawcett Gold Medal PB 196... by Alistair MacLeanThe Raising of the Dubhe by Patrick O'ConnorA Flock of Ships by Brian CallisonFloodtide for Rafferty by Joan WoodberryThe amphorae pirates by Lou Cameron
Maritime Salvage in Fiction
46 books — 3 voters


Herman Melville
All sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable- they live in the varying outer weather and they inhale it's fickleness ...more
Herman Melville , Moby Dick

Garcilaso de la Vega
With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...
GarciLaso De la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One

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