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.

1774 | Firth of Forth

No Such Thing as Being Warm

Janet Schaw tours the ship. More

1872 | South Pacific Ocean

Our Seaworthy Captain

Isabella Bird encounters a very heavy sea.More

1851 | Broadstairs

On Vacation

Charles Dickens hits the beach.More

Charts & Graphs

Bills of Lading

What’s onboard?

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Photograph of Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Photograph of British historian and diplomat James Bryce.

Photograph of American journalist Sebastian Junger.

Photograph of American writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn.

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Black and white photograph of American poet Marianne Moore.

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

Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.

—Horace, 23 BC

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

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