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These networks shaped culture  in its most expansive sense, affecting seafaring,  warfare, empire, commerce, communications,  passenger travel, leisure and science. Authors  recover the sea experience of people and  groups entangled with and yet neglected in an  earlier generation of maritime history focused  on conquest, empire, and knowledge. Thus,  across a century when Britannia nominally  ruled the waves, military control emerges as  both opportunistic, harboring slavers, as well  as partial, giving agency to mutineers and  enslaved crew members, including on the  Royal Navy’s own fleet; the wreck of Arctic exploring voyages such as the Erebus and the Terror  takes readers to PanInuit exploration over sea ice around the Arctic circle; colonial and mercantile  transport in the Indian Ocean reveals the role of lascars, the seafarers of color who for centuries  had practiced these waters; on the coasts of industrial nations, the professional establishment of  marine sciences depends on the pathbreaking contributions of female amateur naturalists.    As part of its revisionary aim, this volume gives voice to the physical environment. 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Considering literature and art as well as history, authors further trace how the paradoxes of sea  practice shape some of the most memorable ocean fantasies of the Western tradition, fostering  both a celebration of work and technology, and a preservation of secular magic in a disenchanted  world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50312054046993,"sku":"NGR9781350451285","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350451282.jpg?v=1751145665"},{"product_id":"literary-channel-book-margaret-cohen-9780691050027","title":"The Literary Channel","description":"The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary \"zone\" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. 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Innovating on the most challenging film set on earth, filmmakers have tapped the emotional power of the underwater environment to forge new visions of horror, tragedy, adventure, beauty, and surrealism, entertaining the public and shaping its perception of ocean reality.  Examining works by filmmakers ranging from J. E. Williamson, inventor of the first undersea film technology in 1914, to Wes Anderson, who filmed the underwater scenes of his 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou entirely in a pool, The Underwater Eye traces how the radically alien qualities of underwater optics have shaped liquid fantasies for more than a century. Richly illustrated, the book explores documentaries by Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle, and Hans Hass, art films by Man Ray and Jean Vigo, and popular movies and television shows such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sea Hunt, the Bond films, Jaws, The Abyss, and Titanic. 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