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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Open Waters

By Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester muses on what it means to be truly at sea.

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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.

1861 | Oxford

Sea Chantey

Lewis Carroll loathes the sea.More

1878 | Edinburgh

The Sea Is English

Robert Louis Stevenson bestows honorary citizenship.More

67 BC | Mediterranean Sea

Clearing the Decks

Pompey rids the Mediterranean of pirates.More

Charts & Graphs

Seaworthy Vessels

Match the sailor to the boat.

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Photograph of American writer Lawrence Wright.

Engraving of Italian adventurer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri.

Black and white photograph of Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad.

Photograph of Rachel Carson

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Engraving of Pliny the Elder.

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

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