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“It’s beautifully written, and shows an extraordinary familiarity with the sea—the author is himself a sailor as well as a professor. In the same way that medievalists say Marc Bloch’s work has the smell of the barnyard to it—in a good way—when you read Jeffrey Bolster, you can smell the salt of the sea. Probably there’s no one else with the environmental history training and experience in sailing. It tackles a huge geographical scope and a lengthy chronological scope.” Read more...
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John R McNeill, Historian
