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.

c. 150 | Samosata

Sex on the Beach

Zeus has his way with Europa on the shore.More

1941 | Sea of Cortez

Boat-Shaped Mind

John Steinbeck ponders the strange identification of man with boat.More

1914 | Panama

Accurate Forecasting

James Bryce on “the greatest liberty man has ever taken with nature.”More

Charts & Graphs

Explorers and Adventurers

Roaming the high seas.

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Photograph of African-American poet and writer Langston Hughes.

Photograph of American novelist Kate Chopin.

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Photograph of British explorer and surgeon G. Murray Levick.

Photograph of West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

Color image of English novelist Charlotte Brontë with book in hand.

Image of Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.

Jules Verne

In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.

—William Petty, 1690

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant

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