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The ocean reader : history, culture, politics / Eric Paul Roorda, editor.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2019 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Roorda, Eric, editor.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection
World readers
The world readers
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ocean.
Oceanography.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 523 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
System Details:
Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
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Summary:
"While much of the telling of human history focuses on events that occurred on land, THE OCEAN READER takes the centrality of water as its starting point, bringing together material that has shaped humans' relationship to the water and treating the ocean as a dynamic site of history, culture, and politics. In its twelve parts, THE OCEAN READER gathers a variety of primary texts, including myth, scholarly writing, poetry, scientific research, song lyrics, memoir, journalism, blog posts, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Roorda/Doyle Collection
The Egyptian Sea of Nun / Samuel A. B. Mercer
Babylon by the Sea / Anonymous
Aphrodite Born From Sea-Spray / Hesiod
Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese Sea Gods, / Ō no Yasumaro
The Pacific Islanders' Angry Ocean God / Sir George Grey
Pele Loses Her Temper / Earl Dutch Baldwin
The Hindu Ocean Gods / E. Washburn Hopkins
The Finnish Sea Mother/ Anonymous
The Sea-Creating, Rainbow-Loving Serpent God of Haiti / Joseph J. Williams
Did Comets Bring Water to Earth? / Kimberly M. Burtnyk
Before the Great Extinctions / Jean-Bernard Caron
The First Aussies / Fran Dorey
A New View of the Ainu / David H. Gremillion
The Surfing Chinchorro of Chile / Victoria Castro, Vivien G. Standen, and Bernardo T. Arriaza
Dugout Canoes / Anonymous
Pacific Island Open Ocean Navigation / David Lewis
The Earliest Seafarers in the Mediterranean and the Near East / George Bass
Chinese Voyages on the Indian Ocean / Zheng He
Arab Voyages on the Indian Ocean / Paul Lunde
A Chart of the Wet Blue Yonder, 1512 / Jan ze Stobnicy
No Welcome for Newcomers in New Zealand / Abel Janszoon Tasman
The Oceanic Captain Kirk / William Reynolds
A Half Mile Down / William Beebe
Walking on the Seafloor / Sylvia Earle
Descent to the Deepest Deep / Jamie Condliffe
Rubber Duckies Navigate the Northwest Passage / Eric Paul Roorda
Basque Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean / Alex Aguilar
The Tragedy of the Mackerel / George Brown Goode
The Tragedy of the Menhaden / Genio C. Scott
The Perils of South Pacific Whaling / Nelson Hadley Cole
The Collapse of Newfoundland Cod / Greenpeace
The Death of Coral Reefs / Bob Stewart
The Maritime Silk Road / Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong
Navigating the Indian Ocean in the 1300s / Ibn Battuta
The Ocean : Bridge or Moat? / Benjamin Labaree
Surviving the Slave Trade / Olaudah Equiano
Hating the China Trade / Frederick Law Olmsted
About All Kinds of Ships / Mark Twain
Loving Cape Horn / Irving Johnson
"Bitter Strength" : the International "Coolie" Trade / The Chinese Cuba Commission Report of 1876
The Container Ship / Roz Hamlett
The Epic Galley Battle of the Ancient Sea / Herodotus
The Crest of Islamic Sea Power / Matthew Merighi
Elizabethan England's Plausibly Deniable War in the Pacific Ocean / Francis Pretty
The Iconic Tactic of the Age of Sail / Godfrey Basil Mundy and Gilbert Blane
Captain Marryat's War / Frederick Marryat
World War I Beneath the Waves / Captain Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim
The Far-Flung Battle of Midway / Office of Naval Intelligence
The Barents Sea, Most Dangerous Waters of World War II / Jack Bowman
The Unfinished Cold War at Sea / Anatoly Miranovsky
China Returns to the Ocean / The U.S. Naval War College
The Sea Peoples / Shelley Wachsmann
Patrick and the Pirates / John Bagnell Bury
The Pirates of the Mediterranean / Frederic C. Lane
The First Pirate of the Caribbean : Christopher Columbus / Michele de Cuneo
American Sea Rovers / Alexander Exquemelin
Born to be Hanged / Captain Charles Johnson
The Dutch "Pirate Admiral" / Jan Pieter Heije
The Chinese "Pirate Admiral," / Koxinga
Song of the Pirate / Jos, de Espronceda
Somali Pirates Attack a Cruise Ship / Eric Paul Roorda
Shipwrecked by Worms, Saved by Canoe : The Last Voyage of Columbus / Diego Méndez
The Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea / John Jea
Pandora's Box / Peter Heywood
The Real Moby-Dick / Owen Chase
The Castaway / Herman Melville
"Just Keep Rowing...!" / William Hale
Life of Poon / Poon Lim
A Three-Hour Tour Becomes a Four-Month Ordeal / Richard Van Pham
The Asian Sea Goddess / Eric Paul Roorda
The Hajj by Sea / Hadji Khan and Wilfrid Sparroy
Saints of the Sea / Durr Freedley
Missionary to Micronesia / Hiram Bingham
The Voyage / Johann Goethe
The Northern Sea / Mary Howitt
The World Below the Brine / Walt Whitman
Far Off-Shore / Herman Melville
The Ninth Wave / Ivan Aivazovsky
Sea Pictures / Edward Elgar
Voyage to Montevideo / Dino Campana
The Ballad of the Seawater / Federico García Lorca
Surfing : A Royal Sport / Jack London
By the Sea / Anonymous
The Compleat Angler / Izaak Walton
Women and Children Next : The Family Goes to Sea / Lady Brassey
The First Solo Circumnavigation / Joshua Slocum
The Cruise / G. B. Barrows
The Compleat Goggler / Guy Gilpatric
Round the World! : Journal of a Sailing Voyage "From a Teen's Point of View" / Katrina Bercaw
The Pliny Deep / Pliny the Elder
Leonardo's Notes on the Ocean / Leonardo da Vinci
The Discovery of the Gulf Stream / Benjamin Franklin
Celestial Navigation for the People / Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
The Ocean and the Atmosphere / Matthew Fontaine Maury
Hurrah for the Dredge! / Edward Forbes
Return of the Fossil Fish / J. L. B. Smith
Goodbye, Plankton / William Beebe
Ocean Acidification / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Blue Immigrants : The Marine Biology of Maritime History / James T. Carlton
The First Dead Zone / The University of Michigan and Matt Rota
The First Trash Vortex / Charles Moore
The Rise of Slime / Jeremy Jackson
The Tragic Common Home of the Ocean / Pope Francis.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Print version: Ocean reader.
ISBN:
9781478007456
1478007451
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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