Fine writing and art. CONTENTS: Voices in Time Seascapes Charles Moore Sails Into a Garbage Patch: 2003 / Long Beach, CA Herman Melville in a Tormented Sea: c. 1835 / Cape of Good Hope Monsters of the Deep: c. 1240 / Norway Infinite Solitude : 1955 / Caribbean Sea Survival of the Fittest: c. 150 / Mediterranean Sea Unconscious Desecration: 1921 / New York City Jules Verne Attends a Funeral: 1868 / Indian Ocean Jacques Cousteau Explores Uncharted Waters: 1943 / Bandol The Accursed Trade: 1756 / Atlantic Ocean Our Seaworthy Captain: 1872 / South Pacific Ocean Marine Map: 1817 / Society Islands Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea: c. 1185 BC / Strait of Messina Committed to Davy Jones’ Locker: 1834 / Pacific Ocean Richard Hughes Cannot Secure the Hatches: 1929 / Caribbean Sea Answered Prayer: 687 / Farne Island Abandon Ship: 1912 / Atlantic Ocean Going Down With the Ship: 1120 / English Channel The Curious Sensation of Drowning: 1892 / Strait of Formosa Man’s Best Friend: 77 / Rome Rachel Carson Returns to the Sea: 1951 / Woods Hole, MA Nothing to Walk On: 1926 / France Calling in the Air Support: 1991 / Atlantic Ocean Amid Frozen Worlds: 1552 / Frozen Sea No Such Thing as Being Warm: 1774 / Firth of Forth Antediluvian: c. 650 BC / India Italo Calvino Swims Westward: 1983 / Italy Seafaring In Pirate Waters: 1999 / Andaman Sea Vision of Beatitude: 1912 / Connecticut Taking Stock: 1812 / Atlantic Ocean A Grand and Awful Scene: 1812 / Atlantic Ocean Proportional Response: c. 480 BC / Hellespont Sailor's Song: c. 850 / England Out of Soundings: 1923 / New York City Only Ten Dinars and a Carpet: 1341 / Calicut Hunger, Thirst, Sickness: 1697 / Pacific Ocean Sea Chantey: 1861 / Oxford Across the Great Divide: 1987 / Bering Strait New World: c. 1000 / Greenland Accurate Forecasting: 1914 / Panama Pompey Clears the Decks: 67 BC / Mediterranean Sea Celestial Navigation: c. 1968 / Mediterranean Sea Dark-Ship Diplomacy: 1853 / Washington, DC Mistaken Identities: c. 800 / Baghdad Limit of Discovery: 1775 /Southern Ocean Boat-Shaped Mind: 1941 / Sea of Cortez When Beset by Misfortune: 23 BC / Rome The Wonderful Complaints of Christopher Columbus: 1503 / Jamaica The Sea is English: 1878 / Edinburgh Trade Routes: 1776 / London Epic Brag: 1572 / Lisbon On the Waterfront: 1862 / London W.G. Sebald Gazes Into Eternity: 1995 / Suffolk Seashores Sonali Deraniyagala Flees Inland: 2004 / Sri Lanka Beached: c. 300 BC / Tegea When the Levee Breaks: c. 2500 BC / Sumer Subtle Sea Musics: c. 1926 / Cape Cod No Place of Habitation: 1630 / Essex Life Cycle: 1941 / California Paradise Lost: 1907 / London Washed Ashore: 690 / Naka Charles Dickens on Vacation: 1851 / Broadstairs Against Nature: c. 1340 / Dead Sea Beachfront Property: 1975 / Northeastern Seaboard Ebb and Flow: c. 815 / Chang'an Liquid Eternity: c. 1856 / Louisiana Belly of the Beast: c. 750 / Mediterranean Sea Castaway: 1709 / Juan Fernández Writing on Water: c. 1979 / Trinidad Sex on the Beach: c. 150 / Samosata Light Surf on Level Sand: 1798 / London Last Swim: c. 1895 / Grand Isle, LA A Thousand Fearful Wrecks: c. 1477 / London Inspecting the Manifest: 1931 / Veracruz Sinking Sun: 1689 / Izumo Point The Good Life: 1855 / Nantucket, MA Dead Reckoning: 1914 / Antarctica Groundswell: 1941 / Cape Ann, MA Joseph Conrad’s Love of the Sea: c. 1880 / London Departments Essays Open Waters: by Simon Winchester A Winelike Sea: by Caroline Alexander Around Alone: by Maggie Shipstead Conversations Virgil & Guy de Maupassant: Wind Power Benjamin Franklin & Charlotte Brontë: Seasick Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles: The Cruelest Mistress Miscellany Sink, Sank, Sunk: Findings from the Editors