'There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than
the life at sea,' wrote Joseph Conrad. There is certainly nothing
more integral to the development of the modern world. In The Sea: A
Cultural History, John Mack considers those great expanses that
both unite and divide us, and the ways in which human beings
interact because of the sea, from navigation to colonization to
trade. Much of the world's population lives on or near the coast,
and people inhabit and engage with the sea in a variety of ways.
The Sea explores the diversity of seas themselves, maritime
technologies (especially the practice of navigation), and different
cultures surrounding the sea. Seafarers have characteristic social
and technical practices, as well as having distinctive language and
customs. Many cultures have created a society of the sea, which is
usually all-male, often cosmopolitan and always hierarchical. The
separation of sea and land is evident in the use of different
vocabularies on land and on sea for the same things, the change in
a mariner's behavior when on land and in the liminal status of
points uniting the two realms, like beaches and ports.Ships are
also deployed in symbolic contexts on land, from ship burials to
ecclesiastical and public architecture. The two realms - land and
sea - are never completely separate. Casting a wide net, The Sea
uses histories, maritime archaeology, anthropology, art history,
biography and literature to provide an innovative and experiential
account of the waters that surround us.
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