Ocean

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"Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective"--

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Full title :Ocean / Steve Mentz ; illustrations by Vanessa Daws.

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"Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 162 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1501348655, 9781501348655, 9781501348648, 1501348647, 1501348663, 9781501348662
oclc:on1131874090
LC Classification:GC26
Dewey Decimal:333.91/64

Two origins : alien or core? -- Seafood before history -- Myth I : Odysseus, not Achilles -- Wet globalization I : the premodern anthropocene -- Sea poetry I : Adamastor as warning and gate -- Sailors : a technological history -- Interlude : Port of New York -- Sea poetry II : the sea in Emily Dickinson -- Myth II : Queequeg and other mermaids -- Wet globalization II : containers -- Blue environmentalism : Rachel Carson -- Swimmers : immersive histories.