Seven-tenths: Sea and Its Thresholds

by JamesHamilton-Paterson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $13.38

  This is a blend of literature and science which explores the seas that cover seven-tenths of the earth's surface, combining a description of the sea and its boundaries in our imaginations and an appreciation of its mysteries. These include special places such as reefs and lagoons and strange phenomena such as islands that never existed and yet appear on maps. The author takes the reader into the deeps and into the cold fear of drowning, into the marvels of marine life and the sombre zone of the wreck. The high technology of an ocean survey ship opens up a strange history of ocean maps and names, and a bleak North Sea trawler takes us into water we are trying to turn into a desert. James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of The Bell-Boy , Gerontius , That Time in Malomba , Playing With Water and The View from Mount Dog .

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.25

  This is a combination of a description of the sea and its boundaries in our imaginations with an appreciation of its mysteries. These include such special places as reefs and lagoons and such strange phenomena as islands that never existed and yet appear on maps. The author takes the reader into the deeps and into the cold fear of drowning, into the marvels of marine life and the sombre zone of the wreck. The high technology of an ocean survey ship opens up a strange history of ocean maps and names, and a bleak North Sea trawler takes us into water we are trying to turn into a desert. The author also wrote The Bell-Boy , Gerontius , That Time in Malomba and Playing With Water .

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $12.53

  'Seven-Tenths' is James Hamilton-Paterson's exploration of the sea. A blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a new edition which includes the acclaimed essay 'Sea Burial.'