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.

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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.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (183 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1501348647, 9781501348648, 1501348663, 9781501348662, 1501348655, 9781501348655
DOI:10.5040/9781501348662
oclc:on1329587624
LC Classification:GC26
Dewey Decimal:333.91/64

Deterratorializing Preface -- 1. Two Origins: Alien or Core? -- 2. Seafood before History -- 3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles 4. Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene -- 5. Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate -- 6. Sailors: A Technological History -- 7. Interlude: Port of New York -- 8. Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson -- 9. Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids -- 10. Wet Globalization II: Containers -- 11. Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson -- 12. Swimmers: Immersive Histories -- Acknowledgments Reading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical Essay -- Index