Most Read This Week In 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.
Though the treatmen ...more
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.
Though the treatmen ...more
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If readers can come away seeing Alfred Wallis's paintings with fresh eyes - seeing not just the charm but the strength and experience behind them – I’ll know the last eight years of the book's production will have been incredibly worthwhile.
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― Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary
― Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary
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It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.
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