· “The predominant Western view of the sea, ” John Mack writes in his new book about the blue part of the planet, “might be characterized as that of a quintessential wilderness, a void without community other than that temporarily established on boats.” The rest of “The Sea: A Cultural History,” tries to divorce itself from [ ]Author: Erin Kelsey. 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 cost, and as Mack explains, in a variety of ways, people actually inhabit the sea. · THE MOST UNFORTUNATE feature of John Mack’s new book is its subtitle. I can only hope that “A Cultural History” was the work of an editorial assistant who .
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“The predominant Western view of the sea, ” John Mack writes in his new book about the blue part of the planet, “might be characterized as that of a quintessential wilderness, a void without community other than that temporarily established on boats.” The rest of “The Sea: A Cultural History,” tries to divorce itself from [ ]. The Sea: A Cultural History John Mack. Univ. of Chicago/Reaktion, $35 (p) ISBN Buy this book. In this scholarly tome, Mack (The Art of Small Things), an anthropologist and. 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. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad.
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