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
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
141 books — 184 voters
Dead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesCurse of the Black Avenger by Eddie       JonesLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Breath Between Waves by Charlotte Anne Hamilton
Up on the deck
47 books — 25 voters

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The Sea Is Calling ...
59 books — 8 voters
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Best Books for Sailors
54 books — 10 voters

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Maritime Classics
277 books — 97 voters
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Cutty Sark
16 books — 4 voters


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