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The following is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place significantly or partially underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, such as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty ...
Paddle-to-the-Sea is a 1941 children's book, written and illustrated by American author/artist Holling C. Holling and published by Houghton Mifflin. It was recognized as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942.
The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings.
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
From awesome art and fab fiction to dishy memoirs and delicious cookbooks, there's a great read everyone on Santa's list.
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.
Children's books by body of water (3 C) Comics by body of water (2 C) F. ... Fictional works set in the Pacific Ocean (7 C, 6 P) Fiction set on ocean planets (22 P) S.
The second section, The Gull's Way, follows a mackerel named Scomber, and the third section, River and Sea follows Anguilla, an eel. [8] The narrative follows these creature's migration habits over the span of a year. [11] Viewing ocean life from a broader ecological perspective was crucial to Carson, rather than just isolating parts of the sea.