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Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgments PART I. MOTHER SEA The Gray Beginnings The Pattern of the Surface The Changing Year The Sunless Sea Hidden Lands The Long Snowfall The Birth of an Island The Shape of Ancient Seas PART II. THE RESTLESS SEA Wind and Water Wind, Sun, and the Spinning of the Earth The Moving Tides PART III. MAN AND THE SEA ABOUT HIM The Global Thermostat Wealth from the Salt Seas The Encircling Sea Suggestions for further reading APPENDIX |