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The Fall of Troy, 2006. Vintage Books, 2007
Adler, Antony
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear and Science at Sea. Harvard University Press, 2019
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The Island Child. Canongate, 2020
Alexander, Caroline
The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War, 2009. Penguin Books, 2010
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Grey Skies, Green Waves: A Surfer’s Journey Around the UK and Ireland. Summersdale, 2010
Apollodorus
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Sea Monsters. Chatto & Windus, 2019
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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
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The Moor: A Journey into the English Wilderness. Faber & Faber, 2014
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Night Boat to Tangier. Canongate, 2019
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The Sea in the Greek Imagination. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
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Blaxland, Juliet
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We Were the Salt of the Sea, 2014. Translation by David Warriner, 2017. Orenda Books, 2018
Bradfield, Elizabeth
Toward Antarctica: An Exploration. Boreal Books, 2019
Bramwell, David & Tinsley, Jo
The Odysseum: Strange Journeys that Obliterated Convention. Brewer’s, 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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Poems from the Moor. Alma Classics, 2018
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The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium, 2003. Translation by Ashley Marc Slapp, 2005. Reaktion Books, 2011
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Fifty Words for Snow. Elliott & Thompson, 2020
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Night Surfing. Allen & Unwin, 1996
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The Sea Around Us, 1951. Mentor Books, 1954
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The Edge of the Sea, 1955. Mariner Books, 1998
Chatwin, Bruce
The Songlines, 1987. Vintage, 1998
Chatwin, Bruce
Far Journeys: Photographs and Notebooks. Viking, 1993
Clare, Horatio
Sicily: through writer’s eyes. Eland London, 2006
Clare, Horatio
Down to the Sea in Ships. Chatto & Windus, 2014
Clare, Horatio
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North. Chatto & Windus, 2017
Codd, Georgie
We Swim to the Shark: Overcoming Fear One Fish at a Time. Little, Brown & Company, 2020
Cockayne, Angela & Hoare, Philip
Dominion: A Whale Symposium. Bath Spa University, 2012
Connelly, Charlie
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020
Connelly, Charlie
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
Conrad, Joseph
Tales of Unrest, 1898. Alma Classics, 2018
Coolidge, Olivia
Marathon Looks on the Sea. Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1967
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Davies, Catrina
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed. Riverrun, 2019
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White Fish With Painted Nails. Slow Dance Press, 1994
Dawson, Jill
Watch Me Disappear. Sceptre, 2006
Daykin, Chloe
Fish Boy, 2017. Faber & Faber, 2018
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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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Robinson Crusoe, 1719. Alma Classics, 2015
Dennis, Jerry
The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes, 2011. The University of Michigan Press, 2012
Donwood, Stanley
Bad Island. Penguin, 2020
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The Canoe Boys: The First Epic Scottish Sea Journey by Kayak, 1950. Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd., 2019
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Eden, Caroline
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light. Quadrille Publishing, 2018
Edgecombe, Jennifer
The Grief of the Sea. Broken Sleep Books, 2020
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The Pebbles on the Beach. Faber & Faber, 1954
Ellis, Clarence
The Pebbles on the Beach, 1954. Faber & Faber, 2018
Eskridge, Robert Lee
Umi: The Hawaiian Boy Who Became a King, 1936. Echo Point Books & Media, 2017
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Marine Objects. Guillemot Press, 2020
Evans, Suzannah V.
Some Language. Guillemot Press, 2020
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The Fife Psychogeographical Collective
From Hill to Sea: Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective. Bread and Circuses, 2015
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Corsair, 2015
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge. North Point Press, 2001
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A Journey into Light. Elliott & Thompson, 2020
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, 2017. Back Bay Books, 2018
Gooley, Tristan
How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea. Sceptre, 2016
Gowar, Imogen Hermes
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. Penguin Random House, 2018
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Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island. Macmillan London, 1987
Hamilton-Paterson, James
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds. Hutchinson London, 1992
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography, 2005. Harper Perennial, 2006
Harvey, Samantha
The Western Wind. Vintage, 2018
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The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson & Issa. The Ecco Press, 1994
Hau’ofa, Epeli
We Are the Ocean: Selected Works. University of Hawai’i Press, 2008
Haynes, Natalie
A Thousand Ships. Mantle, 2019
Heat-Moon, William Least
River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999
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Inch Levels, 2016. Head of Zeus, 2018
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The Old Man and The Sea, 1952. Vintage, 2000
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A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. Granta Books, 2017
Hoare, Philip
Leviathan or, The Whale, 2008. Fourth Estate, 2009
Hoare, Philip
The Sea Inside, 2013. Fourth Estate, 2014
Hoare, Philip
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR. Fourth Estate, 2017
Hoare, Philip & Cockayne, Angela
Dominion: A Whale Symposium. Bath Spa University, 2012
Hoffman, Julian
Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. Penguin Books, 2019
Homer
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Hosseini, Khaled
Sea Prayer. Bloomsbury, 2018
Hudston, Sara
Islomania. Agre Books, 2000
Hughes, Sef
Salt Water: and other short stories, 2019
Huelle, Paweł
Cold Sea Stories, 2008. Translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Comma Press, 2012
Hunt, Nick
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The Fate of Fausto. HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2019
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Island People: The Caribbean and the World. Canongate, 2016
Jerome K. Jerome
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Cove. Granta, 2016
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Kaivo, Jenne
Poems Mostly of the Sea. Independently published, 2019
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Bloom: From Food to Fuel, the Epic Story of How Algae Can Save Our World. Elliott&Thompson, 2019
Kauffmann, Jean-Paul
A Journey To Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland, 2009. Translation by Euan Cameron. Maclehose Press, 2012
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The Outrun. Canongate, 2015
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Walking on Water. John Murray, 1991
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Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo. Bloomsbury, 2007
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Mentz, Steve
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