Seven-Tenths

by James Hamilton-Paterson

Book Overview

The author who has been called the Bruce Chatwin of the high seas offers his second work of nonfiction--an unusually elegant meditation on the sea, its nature and moods, and the way it works on our... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091745012
• ISBN13: 9780091745011
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

leviathan

simply mesmerizing in its mix of science, adventure, anthropology, literature and deep melancholy. "The Great Deep" displays penetrating knowledge and aching acknowledgement of lost past and future on the seas. Written before the endgame for the oceans of global warming was announced, "The Great Deep" presents a learned and wise understanding of human degredation of environment, which alone would make it indespensible reading in these troubled times if its prose wasn't damn near perfect.