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An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
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Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS [1] (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) [2] was a Royal Navy officer and novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836).
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This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...
Articles related to nautical novels, a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages. Thegenre highlights nautical culture in these environments.
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Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1844. Set in 1796–1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. [1]