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The Fall of Troy, 2006. Vintage Books, 2007
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Apollodorus
The Library of Greek Mythology
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The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places. Faber & Faber, 2018
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The Sea in the Greek Imagination. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
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Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present, 1988. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, 2017. Black Inc., 2018
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Blaxland, Juliet
The Easternmost House: A Year of Life on the Edge of England. Sandstone Press, 2019
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Islands and Our Search for New Utopias. Aurum Press, 2017
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We Were the Salt of the Sea, 2014. Translation by David Warriner, 2017. Orenda Books, 2018
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Breverton’s Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea. Quercus, 2010
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Watermark: An Essay on Venice, 1992. Penguin Books, 2013
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The Sea Around Us, 1951. Mentor Books, 1954
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The Songlines, 1987. Vintage, 1998
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Clare, Horatio
Sicily: through writer’s eyes. Eland London, 2006
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Down to the Sea in Ships. Chatto & Windus, 2014
Clare, Horatio
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North. Chatto & Windus, 2017
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Dominion: A Whale Symposium. Bath Spa University, 2012
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Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast. Little, Brown, 2004
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The Mirror of the Sea, 1906. Bravo Ebooks, 2016
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Daykin, Chloe
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White Fish With Painted Nails. Slow Dance Press, 1994
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Watch Me Disappear. Sceptre, 2006
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Landfill. Little Toller, 2018
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Ground Work: Writings on Places and People. Jonathan Cape London, 2018
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The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes, 2011. The University of Michigan Press, 2012
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The Fife Psychogeographical Collective
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge. North Point Press, 2001
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Gange, David
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel. William Collins, 2019
Gillespie, Sarah & Reason, Peter
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, 2017. Back Bay Books, 2018
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How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea. Sceptre, 2016
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The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. Penguin Random House, 2018
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The Silver Darlings, 1941. Faber & Faber, 1969
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Hannah, Jonny
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Hamilton-Paterson, James
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Hamilton-Paterson, James
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds. Hutchinson London, 1992
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The Western Wind. Vintage, 2018
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Hau’ofa, Epeli
We Are the Ocean: Selected Works. University of Hawai’i Press, 2008
Heat-Moon, William Least
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Inch Levels, 2016. Head of Zeus, 2018
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A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. Granta Books, 2017
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Leviathan or, The Whale, 2008. Fourth Estate, 2009
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The Sea Inside, 2013. Fourth Estate, 2014
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Homer
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Wild Sea: A History of the Souther Ocean, 2018. The University of Chicago Press, 2019
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To The Lighthouse, 1927. Oxford University Press, 2008
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