The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds

by James Hamilton-Paterson

Book Overview

The author who has been called the Bruce Chatwin of the high seas offers his second work of nonfiction--an unusually elegant meditation on the sea, its nature and moods, and the way it works on our imaginations. Rich with insights, beauty, and something that might be called spirit.--Chicago Tribune.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805027769
• ISBN13: 9780805027761
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

leviathan

simply mesmerizing in its mix of science, adventure, anthropology, literature and deep melancholy. "The Great Deep" displays penetrating knowledge and aching acknowledgement of lost past and future on the seas. Written before the endgame for the oceans of global warming was announced, "The Great Deep" presents a learned and wise understanding of human degredation of environment, which alone would make it indespensible reading in these troubled times if its prose wasn't damn near perfect.