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

A Winelike Sea

Caroline Alexander

Around Alone

Maggie Shipstead

Open Waters

Simon Winchester

Map

Water World

Miscellany

The Chinese pirate queen.

Teddy Roosevelt’s courtship of Panama.

Tsunami waves.

Burial at sea.

Drowning with Keats.

“Mr. Wilde Disappointed with Atlantic.”

Hart Crane goes overboard.

Joseph Conrad contemplates the Titanic.

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

The sea: the final frontier.

Courbet paints a picture of the sea.

A deadly crossing.

An Act to Prohibit Shanghaiing in the United States.

Ukrainian dolphins.

Tiberius’ clifftop in Capri.

Fish out of luck.

Shipbreaking in India.

Building the Royal Navy.

Voices In Time

When the Levee Breaks

c. 2500 BC | Sumer

No Place of Habitation

1630 | Essex

Clearing the Decks

67 BC | Mediterranean Sea

The Accursed Trade

1759 | Atlantic Ocean

Limit of Discovery

1775 | Southern Ocean

Going Down With the Ship

1120 | English Channel

Sea Chantey

1861 | Oxford

The Good Life

1855 | Nantucket, MA

Dark-Ship Diplomacy

1853 | Washington, DC

Taking Stock

1812 | Atlantic Ocean

Trade Routes

1776 | London

A Grand and Awful Scene

1812 | Atlantic Ocean

Castaway

1709 | Juan Fernández Islands

Uncharted Waters

1943 | Bandol

Washed Ashore

690 | Naka

Paradise Lost

1907 | London

Light Surf on Level Sand

1798 | London

Out of Soundings

1923 | New York City

On Vacation

1851 | Broadstairs

Epic Brag

1572 | Lisbon

Liquid Eternity

c. 1856 | Louisiana

Accurate Forecasting

1914 | Panama

Love of the Sea

c. 1880 | London

Securing the Hatches

1929 | Caribbean Sea

The Tormented Sea

c. 1835 | Cape of Good Hope

Jumping Ship

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Gazing into Eternity

1995 | Suffolk

Sex on the Beach

c. 150 | Samosata

Dead Reckoning

1914 | Antarctica

On the Waterfront

1862 | London

Sinking Sun

1689 | Izumo Point

Our Seaworthy Captain

1872 | South Pacific Ocean

Subtle Sea Musics

c. 1926 | Cape Cod

Man’s Best Friend

77 | Rome

Committed to Davy Jones’ Locker

1834 | Pacific Ocean

Boat-Shaped Mind

1941 | Sea of Cortez

Monsters of the Deep

c. 1240 | Norway

The Sea Is English

1878 | Edinburgh

The Curious Sensation of Drowning

1892 | Strait of Formosa

Last Swim

c. 1895 | Grand Isle, LA

Vision of Beatitude

1912 | Connecticut

Unconscious Desecration

1921 | New York City

Wonderful Complaints

1503 | Jamaica

A Watery Funeral

1868 | Indian Ocean

No Such Thing as Being Warm

1774 | Firth of Forth

Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea

c. 1185 BC | Strait of Messina

Survival of the Fittest

c. 150 | Mediterranean Sea

A Thousand Fearful Wrecks

c. 1477 | London

Infinite Solitude

1955 | Caribbean Sea

Charts and Graphs

Deep Sea

Explorers and Adventurers

Mutinous Tides

Bills of Lading

Talking Like a Sailor

Kidnapped!

Seaworthy Vessels

If by Sea

Contributors

Conversations

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

Benjamin Franklin & Charlotte Brontë

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant

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