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 Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Boy from the Sea
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
The Oceans and the Stars
Marauder (Oregon Files, #15)
The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury (NUMA Files #20)
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Hellburner (Oregon Files #16)
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Treasure Island
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Mythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanAn Aquarium by Jeffrey YangZong! by Marlene NourbeSe PhilipManatee/Humanity by Anne WaldmanSpell by Dan Beachy-Quick
Ocean Poetry
8 books — 12 voters
Under the Black Flag by David CordinglyTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick by Herman MelvilleIf a Pirate I Must Be by Richard   SandersMarco Polo by Martin J. Hollenberg
Best Maritime Books
23 books — 10 voters

The Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John HowgegoThose Vulgar Tubes by Joe J. Simmons IIIShip Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by Roy R. BehrensHow We Found the Mary Rose by Alexander McKeeThe Wreck at Sharpnose Point by Jeremy Seal
~~Coughing Up Ships~
120 books — 7 voters



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