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This category is for works of fiction - including books, films, and television - which are primarily set around the workings of a canal. Pages in category "Canals in fiction" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
It won the U.S. National Book Award in History, [3] the Francis Parkman Prize, [4] the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, [5] and the Cornelius Ryan Award. [6] The book details people, places, and events involved in building the Panama Canal. The title refers to the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that the opening of the canal created.
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 ...
Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction. [1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1960s when various movements created the platform for an ...
The flying island of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. (Illustrated 1795.) In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.
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.
A canal can be created where no stream presently exists. Either the body of the canal is dug or the sides of the canal are created by making dykes or levees by piling dirt, stone, concrete or other building materials. The finished shape of the canal as seen in cross section is known as the canal prism. [1]