They don't have to be about the ocean either. More specifically, I just want the atmosphere of living by the ocean in a fishing town or an adventure out at sea. Thanks :]
They don't have to be about the ocean either. More specifically, I just want the atmosphere of living by the ocean in a fishing town or an adventure out at sea. Thanks :]
To The Lighthouse by Virgina Wolf is set near the ocean and has some nice beach scenes in it.
The Bounty Trilogy by Nardoff and Hall, was a great story about an adventure at sea. I really enjoyed reading this book and found it very readable, it is not bogged down by difficult to understand terminology.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is another book with some good beach scenes. Though in this book they don't actually live by the beach, but vacation there, but a good portion of it is near and around the beach.
Kidnapped and Treasure Island are good sea adventures by Robert Louis Stevenson. I enjoyed Kidnapped slightly more.
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is a story set in a town that is near to the ocean.
The Magus by John Fowles is an excellent book in which the majority of it takes place upon a Greek Island.
Moby Dick
John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and its sequel, Sweet ThursdayQuote:
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The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway. About the Caribbean.
"Two years before the mast" by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; a diary of a lawyer from XIX century that enrolled as a common sailor to improve his health; he sailed from Boston to San Francisco (around Cape Horn). A great book that gives a description of early California; it was very influential during its time regarding sailors' rights etc.
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.
Granted, the first half of the book has nothing to do with the ocean whatsoever, but the second part more than makes up for that! One of my favourite novels, even though it's been a while since I last read it.
The Ghost and Mrs Muir by RA Dick. It was made into a great movie and TV series.
Treasure Island!
http://www.online-literature.com/ste...reasureisland/
Practically anything by Joseph Conrad. I just finished Lord Jim for the second time. Marlowe, Conrad's narrator tells a whopping good story. Conrad is at his best in Nostromo.
"Sailing alone around the world" - Joshua Slocum, a C19th book account of sailing alone around the world, a really good yarn.
Various books by John Barth, "Tidewater Tales," "The last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor," etc. Post-modernist novels set on or by the sea.
John Masefield also wrote some cracking good sea yarns. - "The Bird of Dawning" and "Victorious Troy" spring to mind.
And A.E. "Sinbad" Dingle deserves to be better remembered than he is.
Check out W.W. Jacobs, who wrote plenty of (mostly humorous) tales about the lives on and off the water of seafaring folk.
Just read the new Michael Chreighton book, Pirate Latitude. Its all about pirates in the colonies back in the 1700's. Its a good, entertaining read
don't know if it's what your looking for but Gabriel Garcia Marques book ?the story of the shipwrecked sailor' is really good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sto...wrecked_Sailor
In addition to that list:
Jack London's 'Sea Wolf'
Ernest Hemmingway's 'The Garden of Eden'
Jules Verne's ' The Mysterious Island'
Aldous Huxley's 'Island'
John Steinbeck's 'The Pearl'