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Literature has meticulously recorded several geographical spaces, capturing their essence within its preponderance of narratives. It carries the prints of the most fickle elements like time and tide. Time and tide waits to be read and felt in the pleats of the paper. A deep dive into the creases of literature brings out the evolution of land-centred narratives to ocean-centred stories into the limelight. Understanding this transitionary evolution is as necessary as culture and history. Ancient literature is mostly terrestrial stories of heroic courage, where the sea functioned as a realtime challenge and unpredictable danger roaring at the margins of the narratives. From the eighteenth century onward, significant developments in maritime expansion and trade placed the sea at the centre of the narration. The sea has flooded the postcolonial narratives with its tides carrying the painful memories of slavery, migration and diaspora in its ebb and flow. Writers surfaced with impressive stories of maritime history and culture, beautified with the natural elements. All this gradual effort of centuries resulted in the emergence of Blue Humanities as an interdisciplinary framework connecting humanities with science. This paper reviews the literature to trace out the changes in the representation of seas across literary periods in order to reflect the evolving human relationship with sea, moving from territorial fixity to fluid relationality. Keywords: sea narratives, therapeutic sea, postcolonial literature, children literature, environmental degradation, sea as central setting, non- human relationship, anthropocene sea, ecological concern