Shipwreck

Shipwreck is part of Survivalist and/or Disaster fiction. It can be set partially or completely at sea under the Maritime genre. Sometimes the time spent at sea is brief, where Shipwreck instead focuses on the time trapped on an island or land waiting for rescue and survival.

When fighting for survival after becoming stranded on a deserted island or similar location became popular (starting with Robinson Crusoe), a new genre was spawned: Robinsonade.


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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Life of Pi
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Robinson Crusoe
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
A Night to Remember
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Lifeboat
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Lord of the Flies
Jamrach's Menagerie
The Swiss Family Robinson
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
139 books — 182 voters
Catamaran Crossing by Douglas Carl FrickeThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       Jones
Island and Boating Non-Fiction
23 books — 19 voters

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierThe Wreckers by Iain LawrenceForbidden by Eve BuntingCornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 by Cathryn J. PearceDemelza by Winston Graham
Wreckers
43 books — 20 voters


George Eliot
Rosamund, taken hold of by an emotion stronger than her own--hurried along in a new movement which gave all things some new, awful, undefined aspect--could find no words, but involuntarily she put her lips to Dorothea's forehead which was very near her, and then for a minute the two women clasped each other as if they had been in a shipwreck. ...more
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Arthur Arntzen
Det va bra dokker kom. Æ satt just her og tænkte på om ho Hilvarda huska på å læmpe ut monsen før ho la sæ i går, så han ikkje pessa i kråa.
Arthur Arntzen, Dokker kan flire

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