Seven tenths
Subtitle: the sea and its thresholds
By: James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher: Europa Editions Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781933372693
Other titles: Sea and its thresholds
Description: These essays concern the seas in various contexts such as sailing charts, the nature of islands, shipwrecks and burial at sea. As a whole they are a thought provoking read.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the new edition; title: Charts and naming; title: Islands and boundaries; title: Reefs and seeing; title: Wrecks and death; title: Deeps and the dark; title: Fishing and loss; title: Pirates and nomads; title: Sea burial; title: Index.