Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778.

Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

The Sea

Volume VI, Number 3 | summer 2013

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Preamble

Sea Change

By Lewis H. Lapham

The sea offers a particular kind of freedom, though it’s one that comes at a price.

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Around Alone

By Maggie Shipstead

The challenge of the world’s first solo, nonstop, around-the-world yacht race: to endure the danger of the sea, and the strain of solitude.

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Map

Water World

From radioactive waste to underwater cables, the world under the sea.

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Miscellany

Waves generated by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 reached the shores of Peru and Nova Scotia.

1120 | English Channel

Going Down With the Ship

A drunken shipwreck angers God and King. More

67 BC | Mediterranean Sea

Clearing the Decks

Pompey rids the Mediterranean of pirates.More

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Jumping Ship

Getting off the Titanic.More

Charts & Graphs

Kidnapped!

The prey of pirates.

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Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

Photograph of German-English novelist W.G. Sebald.

Image of medieval traveler Sir John Mandeville.

Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

Photograph of West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

T.S. Eliot

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

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