Vast Expanses - A History of the Oceans Rozwadowski Helen M.Pevná vazba
Vast Expanses - A History of the Oceans Rozwadowski Helen M.Pevná vazba Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. Rozwadowski weaves…
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Vast Expanses - A History of the Oceans Rozwadowski Helen M.Pevná vazba
Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe and across geological and evolutionary time.Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied through industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. In Vast Expanses, Helen M.
It has helped us to exploit marine resources, Rozwadowski argues that knowledge about the oceans--created through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through human ambitions for profiting from the sea--has played a central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless, and opaque place.
Heraldry of the Oceans