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"This would not bring an end to the wars among Alexander's heirs, but it did mark the end of the idea that any of them could rule everything their old master had. By the end of the fighting, which lasted until nearly the end of century, Alexander's dreams lay in ruins - his mother, wife, half brother, and infant son all murdered. In their place stood three families. In Greece and Macedon, the Antigonids would rule the old homeland; in the Asian satrapies, the descendants of Seleucus (who had been one of the assassins of Perediccas) would govern this part of the former Persian Empire; while in Egypt, Ptolemy intended to found his own dynasty." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #alexandria #theriseandfallofalexandria #birthplace #modernworld #justinpollard #howardreid #bookstagram #history #alexander #greece #macedon #asia #egypt #persia #empire #classic #ideas #foundations #penguinbooks #borrow #read #booklove #page33

"Vital sidled over too, visibly softened by the sea air and silky murmur of the shore. 'Tomorrow or the day after.'⁣ 'The fishing's all finished?' I asked.⁣ 'I-i-i-in three weeks' time, there's going to be the c-c-c-crab. G-g-g-good ones to eat.'⁣ 'Heee ... That's another kind of trap.'⁣ 'And what are you going to do in the meantime?'⁣ 'Christ in a chalice, nothing!'⁣ We burst out laughing. It struck me how handsome a man he was. Feet planted firmly, knees holding strong beneath his worn jeans, he stood anchored to the ground, roots stretching down to the earth's core." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #wewerethesaltofthesea #roxannebouchard #fiction #bookstagram #salt #fishing #love #friendship #waves #crime #writing #story #novek #magical #haunting #fishingvillage #quebec #detective #borrow #read #page33

"Small boots appeared in front of my face. The Polish girl knelt in front of me with snow wrapped in a handkerchief. She swept my hair aside and pressed the cold compress to my forehead. "Go away," I told her. "Wait." The nurse looked to the Polish girl. "Could you please go outside and find a large stick?" The girl nodded and left. The nurse then sat down in front of me. I watched her mouth as she whispered. "Her name is Emilia. She's from southern Poland. Her father sent her away for safety... near Nemmersdorf." "Holly hell," I breathed. She nodded and opened her bag. "I'm Joana. I worked as physician's assistant for a few years. I'm not German. I'm Lithuanian. Is that a problem?" "I don't care what you are. Have you done this before?" PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #rutasepetys #salttothesea #1945 #ship #wilhelmgustloff #historical #fiction #war #germany #poland #lithuania #penguinbooks #bookdtagram #borrow #read #page33 @rutasepetysauthor

"There may even have been some contact with the Black Sea, if the story of Jason's Argonauts has any historical basis. The 'Gelidonya wreck', a thirteenth-century shipwreck off the coast of southern Turkey, illuminates the trading world of the Mycenaeans. Most of the wreck was swept away by the waters, but its cargo was too heavy for the seas to shift: half a ton of big copper ingots, as well as bronze goods and seals that suggest the ship had visited Syria and Cyprus. Another slightly older wreck, found at Uluburun off the Turkish coast, contained even larger amounts of copper and, intriguingly, one tenth the amount of tin, the right amount for the manufacture of bronze." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #davidabulafia #thegreatsea #humanhistory #mediterranean #book #bookstagram #greek #cyprus #mycenaeans #blacksea #shipwreck #archeology #coast #argonauts #connections @penguinbooks #borrow #read #page33

"Ishmael begins "Cetology" apologizing for a break in the action since the Pequod is finally at sea and rolling along under sail. He has established how dangerous and honorable it is to be a whaleman, but before he continues to the high drama of revealing Ahab and his true mission of lusty revenge against the White Whale, he pauses here on the North Atlantic for what he seems "a matter almost indispensable": to define whether a whale is a mammal or a fish and to classify how sperm whales fit into the broader taxonomy of cetaceans. "Cetology" is his longest direct exposition on science in the novel." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #ahabsrollingsea #naturalhistory #mobydick #richardjking #hermanmelville #ahab #whale #whitewhale #ishmael #whaling #pequod #ship #roll #books #bookstagram @uchicagopress #borrow #read #page33

"The couple had come back when her father died, three years later, to care for her mother and run her parents' farm on the far side of the creek. When he first caught sight of her, buying a paper for quilting needles on a leaden summer Saturday, there had been shadows on her neck, and thumbprints on her arms. His stomach had jumped, then plummeted, and he realized that all the filthy dreams he'd had since she left had been about her." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #theshore #sarataylor #fiction #islands #atlanticocean #women #drugs #wilderness #domesticviolence #strenght #bravery #home #wellbeing #story #debut #book #bookstagram #borrow #read #page33

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Lasītāji grāmatas ņem un lasa par brīvu, bet tu vari atbalstīt Jūras bibliotēku, lai tā augtu.

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Happy New Year ! ♥️ with my mamma @zane.iltnere #chinesenewyear #happy #boys #love

A gift from Ireland, from a bookshop in Dalkey. May it be a weekend mantra for all of us! #oscarwilde #gutter #stars #sealibrary #bookstagram #friday

from "The Wet Book of Water Spirits" (2019) by Zack McCune, FLNR #selkies #waterspirits

I had to try it! A water-proof book about water spirits, a gift from San Francisco. Zack McCune, @wikipedia brand director, who has also worked with MTV, BBC among others, and ten years ago wrote a first academic thesis on Instagram, created it last year and wanted to have a copy of it in the Sea Library. There are only three copies of this art book in the world and one of them is in #Jurmala now! Today a stormy Baltic Sea almost took it from me, but all ended well and you can come and read "The Wet Book of Water Spirits" about eight mythical water spirits in the Sea Library. Thank you @zmccune so, so much! #artbook #flnr #california #bookstagram #sealibrary #selkies #waterspirits #sea #waterproof #grateful

Good morning, weather! Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm! #balticsea #waves #joy #freedom

Look what I found in the dark! This beautiful book will be published after one month, on Feb 20, 2020. @mattgaw's inspiring journey under the moon and stars, "we only need to step outside to find that, in darkness, the world lights up." Borrow and read in the Sea Library #elliottandthompson #bookstagram #moon #stars #darkness #nature

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You can donate a book to the Sea Library to help to fill its shelves. Send me a note, if you have a sea book you no longer need. I will take a good care of it and find a reader. Contact!

Ja tev ir grāmata par tuviem un tāliem ūdeņiem un jūras pasauli, kuru vairs nelasi, bet gribi, lai lasītu citi, dāvini bibliotēkai! Raksti man.

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