Cover of The Oxford book of the sea

The Oxford book of the sea

by Jonathan Raban

1992 524 pages eng

It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of writings which ponder its mystery. A powerful and res…

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