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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Sea Change

Lewis H. Lapham

Around Alone

Maggie Shipstead

Open Waters

Simon Winchester

A Winelike Sea

Caroline Alexander

Map

Water World

Miscellany

Joseph Conrad contemplates the Titanic.

Tiberius’ clifftop in Capri.

Building the Royal Navy.

Shipbreaking in India.

Fish out of luck.

The Chinese pirate queen.

Ukrainian dolphins.

“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

The sea: the final frontier.

An Act to Prohibit Shanghaiing in the United States.

Teddy Roosevelt’s courtship of Panama.

Courbet paints a picture of the sea.

“Mr. Wilde Disappointed with Atlantic.”

A deadly crossing.

Drowning with Keats.

Burial at sea.

Hart Crane goes overboard.

Tsunami waves.

Voices In Time

Dark-Ship Diplomacy

1853 | Washington, DC

When the Levee Breaks

c. 2500 BC | Sumer

Infinite Solitude

1955 | Caribbean Sea

Uncharted Waters

1943 | Bandol

Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea

c. 1185 BC | Strait of Messina

Committed to Davy Jones’ Locker

1834 | Pacific Ocean

Clearing the Decks

67 BC | Mediterranean Sea

Washed Ashore

690 | Naka

Castaway

1709 | Juan Fernández

Liquid Eternity

c. 1856 | Louisiana

Jumping Ship

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Light Surf on Level Sand

1798 | London

Out of Soundings

1923 | New York City

Trade Routes

1776 | London

Unconscious Desecration

1921 | New York City

Taking Stock

1812 | Atlantic Ocean

Boat-Shaped Mind

1941 | Sea of Cortez

Securing the Hatches

1929 | Caribbean Sea

Dead Reckoning

1914 | Antarctica

A Watery Funeral

1868 | Indian Ocean

Survival of the Fittest

c. 150 | Mediterranean Sea

Wonderful Complaints

1503 | Jamaica

Limit of Discovery

1775 | Southern Ocean

Vision of Beatitude

1912 | Connecticut

Sinking Sun

1689 | Izumo Point

A Thousand Fearful Wrecks

c. 1477 | London

The Accursed Trade

1759 | Atlantic Ocean

Epic Brag

1572 | Lisbon

Paradise Lost

1907 | London

Love of the Sea

c. 1880 | London

Subtle Sea Musics

c. 1926 | Cape Cod

Gazing into Eternity

1995 | Suffolk

The Curious Sensation of Drowning

1892 | Strait of Formosa

Our Seaworthy Captain

1872 | South Pacific Ocean

Accurate Forecasting

1914 | Panama

Return to the Sea

1951 | Woods Hole, MA

Going Down With the Ship

1120 | English Channel

On the Waterfront

1862 | London

The Tormented Sea

c. 1835 | Cape of Good Hope

Sea Chantey

1861 | Oxford

No Place of Habitation

1630 | Essex

No Such Thing as Being Warm

1774 | Firth of Forth

On Vacation

1851 | Broadstairs

The Sea Is English

1878 | Edinburgh

Sex on the Beach

c. 150 | Samosata

Monsters of the Deep

c. 1240 | Norway

The Good Life

1855 | Nantucket, MA

Man’s Best Friend

77 | Rome

Last Swim

c. 1895 | Grand Isle, LA

A Grand and Awful Scene

1812 | Atlantic Ocean

Charts and Graphs

Seaworthy Vessels

Explorers and Adventurers

If by Sea

Mutinous Tides

Kidnapped!

Talking Like a Sailor

Bills of Lading

Deep Sea

Contributors

Conversations

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant

Benjamin Franklin & Charlotte Brontë

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The Perfect Swarm

2018:

The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.

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Bees take over a Los Angeles street as spectators watch.

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The World in Time

Jim Holt

Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jim Holt, author of When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. More