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Risingtidefallingstar : in search of the soul of the sea / Philip Hoare.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoare, Philip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoare, Philip.
- Ocean--Popular works.
- Ocean.
- Ocean--Social aspects.
- Ocean--Psychological aspects.
- Ocean and civilization.
- Marine animals.
- Sea in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Hoare brings readers on a journey in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining performers, wild utopians and national heroes famous or infamous, who are all surprisingly, and sometimes fatally, linked to the sea."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE RISING SEA
- HE GAZES TO THE SHORE
- THE STAR LIKE SORROWS OF IMMORTAL EYES
- SOMETHING AMAZING
- THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA
- ZERO AND EVERYTHING TOGETHER
- UNDER A GREEN SEA
- THE HANDSOME SAILOR
- STELLA MARIS
- THE SEA THAT RAGED NO MORE
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-56066-X
- OCLC:
- 1028747520
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