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In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader charts humans' relationship to the Ocean, which has often been seen as a changeless space without a history. It collects familiar, forgotten, and previously unpublished texts from all corners of the world. Spanning antiquity to the present, the volume's selections cover myriad topics including the slave trade, explorers from China and the Middle East, shipwrecks and castaways, Caribbean and Somali pirates, battles and U-boats, narratives of the Ocean's origins, and the devastating effects of climate change. Containing gems of maritime writing ranging from myth, memoir, poetry, and scientific research to journalism, song lyrics, and scholarly writing, The Ocean Reader is the essential guide for all those wanting to understand the complex and long history of the Ocean that covers over 70 percent of the planet
The Ocean Reader -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on The Ocean Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Creation -- The Egyptian Sea of Nun -- Babylon by the Sea -- Aphrodite Born from Sea Spray -- Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese Sea Gods -- The Pacific Islanders’ Angry Ocean God -- Pele Loses Her Temper -- The Hindu Ocean Gods -- The Finnish Sea Mother -- The Sea-Creating, Rainbow-Loving -- Did Comets Bring Water to Earth? -- Before the Great Extinctions -- II. Ancient Seas -- The First Aussies -- A New View of the Ainu -- The Surfing Chinchorro of Chile -- Canoes: The World’s First—and Simplest, and Most Graceful—Boats -- Pacific Island Open Ocean Navigation -- The Earliest Seafarers in the Mediterranean and the Near East -- III. Unknown Waters -- Chinese Voyages on the Indian Ocean -- Arab Voyages on the Indian Ocean -- A Chart of the Wet Blue Yonder, 1512 -- No Welcome for Newcomers in New Zealand -- The Oceanic Captain Kirk -- A Half Mile Down -- Walking on the Seafloor -- Descent to the Deepest Deep -- Rubber Duckies Navigate the Northwest Passage -- IV. Saltwater Hunt -- Basque Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean -- The Tragedy of the Mackerel -- The Tragedy of the Menhaden -- The Perils of South Pacific Whaling -- The Collapse of Newfoundland Cod -- The Death of Coral Reefs -- V. Watery Highways -- The Maritime Silk Road -- Navigating the Indian Ocean in the 1300s -- The Ocean: Bridge or Moat? -- Surviving the Slave Ship -- Hating the China Trade -- About All Kinds of Ships -- Loving Cape Horn -- “Bitter Strength”: The International “Coolie” Trade -- The Container Ship -- VI. Battlefields -- The Epic Galley Battle of the Ancient Sea -- The Crest of Islamic Sea Power -- Elizabethan England’s Plausibly Deniable War in the Pacific Ocean -- The Iconic Tactic of the Age of Sail -- Captain Marryat’s War -- World War I beneath the Waves -- The Far-Flung Battle of Midway -- The Barents Sea, Most Dangerous Waters of World War II -- The Unfinished Cold War at Sea -- China Returns to the Ocean -- VII. Piracy -- The Sea Peoples -- Patrick and the Pirates -- The Pirates of the Mediterranean -- The First Pirate of the Caribbean: Christopher Columbus -- American Sea Rovers -- Born to Be Hanged -- The Dutch Pirate Admiral: Piet Hein -- The Chinese Pirate Admiral: Koxinga -- Song of the Pirate -- Somali Pirates Attack a Cruise Ship -- VIII. Shipwrecks and Castaways -- Shipwrecked by Worms, Saved by Canoe: The Last Voyage of Columbus -- The Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea -- Pandora’s Box -- The Real Moby-Dick -- The Castaway -- Just Keep Rowing . . . ! -- Life of Poon -- A Three-Hour Tour Becomes a Four-Month Ordeal -- IX. Inspiration -- The Asian Sea Goddess -- The Hajj by Sea -- Durr Freedley’s “Saints of the Sea” -- Missionary to Micronesia -- The Voyage -- The Northern Seas -- The World below the Brine -- Far Off-Shore -- The Ninth Wave -- Sea Pictures -- Voyage to Montevideo -- The Ballad of the Seawater -- X. Recreation -- Surfing: A Royal Sport -- By the Sea, by the Sea . . . -- The Compleat Angler -- Women and Children Next: The Family Goes to Sea -- The First Solo Circumnavigation -- The Cruise -- The Compleat Goggler -- Round the World! Journal of a Sailing Voyage—from a Teen’s Point of View -- XI. Laboratory -- The Pliny Deep -- Leonardo’s Notes on the Ocean -- The Discovery of the Gulf Stream -- Celestial Navigation for the People -- The Ocean and the Atmosphere -- Hurrah for the Dredge! -- Return of the Fossil Fish -- XII. The Endangered Ocean -- Goodbye, Plankton -- Ocean Acidification -- Attack of the Invasive Species! -- The First Dead Zone -- The First Trash Vortex -- The Rise of Slime -- The Tragic Common Home of the Ocean -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources -- Index