{"product_id":"this-watery-world-vartan-p-messier-9781443820714","title":"This Watery World: Humans and the Sea","description":"In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. From reflections on the ocean as metaphor to shark documentaries and Jaws, from Hemingway's organic ecology to Melville's tropic-birds and the establishment of a Puerto Rican maritime preserve, This Watery World reminds us that-onshore and inland-we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. When I put this book down I was reminded of the Hyderabadi poet Sarojini Naidu: The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all. -Professor Ashton Nichols, editor of Romantic Natural Histories and author of The Poetics of Epiphany and The Revolutionary I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vartan P. Messier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1443820717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781443820714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge Scholars Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Vartan P. Messier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48444897591551,"sku":"9781443820714","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ae7317d-4d4b-4317-b161-c0bbb6763a24.jpg?v=1777215287","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-watery-world-vartan-p-messier-9781443820714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}