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

Open Waters

Simon Winchester

Around Alone

Maggie Shipstead

Map

Water World

Miscellany

Joseph Conrad contemplates the Titanic.

Drowning with Keats.

The Chinese pirate queen.

The sea: the final frontier.

“Mr. Wilde Disappointed with Atlantic.”

Tiberius’ clifftop in Capri.

Tsunami waves.

Hart Crane goes overboard.

A deadly crossing.

Burial at sea.

Teddy Roosevelt’s courtship of Panama.

An Act to Prohibit Shanghaiing in the United States.

Fish out of luck.

Courbet paints a picture of the sea.

Building the Royal Navy.

Ukrainian dolphins.

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

Shipbreaking in India.

Voices In Time

On Vacation

1851 | Broadstairs

Last Swim

c. 1895 | Grand Isle, LA

No Such Thing as Being Warm

1774 | Firth of Forth

Man’s Best Friend

77 | Rome

Taking Stock

1812 | Atlantic Ocean

Liquid Eternity

c. 1856 | Louisiana

A Thousand Fearful Wrecks

c. 1477 | London

Committed to Davy Jones’ Locker

1834 | Pacific Ocean

Boat-Shaped Mind

1941 | Sea of Cortez

Securing the Hatches

1929 | Caribbean Sea

No Place of Habitation

1630 | Essex

Uncharted Waters

1943 | Bandol

Unconscious Desecration

1921 | New York City

Vision of Beatitude

1912 | Connecticut

Dark-Ship Diplomacy

1853 | Washington, DC

Clearing the Decks

67 BC | Mediterranean Sea

The Accursed Trade

1759 | Atlantic Ocean

The Curious Sensation of Drowning

1892 | Strait of Formosa

A Grand and Awful Scene

1812 | Atlantic Ocean

Paradise Lost

1907 | London

Sinking Sun

1689 | Izumo Point

Washed Ashore

690 | Naka

Survival of the Fittest

c. 150 | Mediterranean Sea

The Sea Is English

1878 | Edinburgh

Jumping Ship

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Our Seaworthy Captain

1872 | South Pacific Ocean

Sea Chantey

1861 | Oxford

Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea

c. 1185 BC | Strait of Messina

Monsters of the Deep

c. 1240 | Norway

Wonderful Complaints

1503 | Jamaica

Trade Routes

1776 | London

Infinite Solitude

1955 | Caribbean Sea

Light Surf on Level Sand

1798 | London

Gazing into Eternity

1995 | Suffolk

Epic Brag

1572 | Lisbon

A Watery Funeral

1868 | Indian Ocean

When the Levee Breaks

c. 2500 BC | Sumer

Castaway

1709 | Juan Fernández Islands

Accurate Forecasting

1914 | Panama

On the Waterfront

1862 | London

Sex on the Beach

c. 150 | Samosata

The Good Life

1855 | Nantucket, MA

Love of the Sea

c. 1880 | London

Dead Reckoning

1914 | Antarctica

Limit of Discovery

1775 | Southern Ocean

Subtle Sea Musics

c. 1926 | Cape Cod

Out of Soundings

1923 | New York City

The Tormented Sea

c. 1835 | Cape of Good Hope

Going Down With the Ship

1120 | English Channel

Charts and Graphs

Seaworthy Vessels

Talking Like a Sailor

If by Sea

Deep Sea

Mutinous Tides

Explorers and Adventurers

Bills of Lading

Kidnapped!

Contributors

Conversations

Benjamin Franklin & Charlotte Brontë

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant

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