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The ocean reader : history, culture, politics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Roorda, Eric (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:World readers.
Subjects:
Ocean.
Oceanography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Egyptian Sea of Nun / Anonymous
  • 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 / Anonymous
  • The Hindu Ocean Gods / Edward 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 / Various Authors
  • CanoesL The World's First--and Simples, and Most Graceful--Boats / Eric Paul Roorda
  • Pacific Island Open Ocean Navigation / David H. Lewis
  • The Earliest Seafarers in the Mediterranean and the Near East / George F. 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 / Anonymous
  • 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 / Anonymous
  • 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
  • Durr Freedley's "Saints of the Sea" / Anonymous
  • 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 /Various Auhors
  • The First Trash Vortex / Charles Moore
  • The Rise of Slime / Jeremy Jackson
  • The Tragic Common Home of the Ocean / Pope Francis.