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"

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
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 Sea Captain's Wife
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
The Oceans and the Stars
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
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
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Mythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanAn Aquarium by Jeffrey YangZong! by Marlene NourbeSe PhilipManatee/Humanity by Anne WaldmanSpell by Dan Beachy-Quick
Ocean Poetry
10 books — 13 voters

Jaws by Peter BenchleyRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeA Night to Remember by Walter LordThe Cruise of the Snark by Jack LondonThe Spear in the Sand by Raoul C. Faure
The Sea Is Calling ...
59 books — 8 voters
The Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyRed Storm Rising by Tom ClancyDas Boot by Lothar-Günther BuchheimVoyage of the Devilfish by Michael DiMercurioRun Silent Run Deep by Edward L. Beach
Best Submarine Thrillers
121 books — 94 voters

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Cutty Sark
16 books — 4 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
70 books — 44 voters


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