Product Description: In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. From reflections on the ocean as metaphor to shark documentaries and 'Jaws', from Hemingway's organic ecology to Melville's tropic-birds and the establishment of a Puerto Rican maritime preserve, 'This Watery World' reminds us that - onshore and inland - we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea...read more

Product Description: Narrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past as it really was...read more