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".
- ISBN10 0099160617
- ISBN13 9780099160618
- Publish Date 20 May 1993 (first published 2 July 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 269
- Language English