What better way to celebrate this day than by returning to the classics about the sea: from Melville or Conrad to the shipwrecks recounted by García Márquez and Cabeza de Vaca.

World Oceans Day is the perfect occasion to draw a map of the great literary works that have been written about the seas, from the classics of Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad to the shipwrecks told by authors as different as the Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez or the conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Since Homer, deep currents run through the libraries of ancient human passion wanting to jump into the water. Here is a brief selection of fictions, smart essays, navigation charts and true human portraits dealing with something changeable and sometimes as fatal as the sea.

Here is a list of  some titles on the subject.

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Penguin Clásicos)
• El Espejo del mar by Joseph Conrad (Debolsillo)
• Relato de un náufrago by Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage Español)
• Naufragios by Cabeza de Vaca (Cátedra)
• La carta esférica by Pérez-Reverte  (Alfaguara)
• Breve Atlas de los Faros del Fin del Mundo by José Luis González Macías (Ediciones Menguantes)

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