Name: This Watery World: Humans and the Sea
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Author: Batra, Nandita ; Messier, Vartan P.
ISBN: 9781443820714

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Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Author

Batra, Nandita ; Messier, Vartan P.

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

235

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1443820717

ISBN13

9781443820714

Synopsis "This Watery World: Humans and the Sea"

In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. From reflections on the ocean as metaphor to shark documentaries and Jaws, from Hemingway's organic ecology to Melville's tropic-birds and the establishment of a Puerto Rican maritime preserve, This Watery World reminds us that-onshore and inland-we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. When I put this book down I was reminded of the Hyderabadi poet Sarojini Naidu: The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all. -Professor Ashton Nichols, editor of Romantic Natural Histories and author of The Poetics of Epiphany and The Revolutionary I

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