Imagining the Oceans
The oceans cover three-quarters of the globe. They sustain life on land and shape societies across history and culture. The ocean environment at the same time is forbidding and remote, hostile to human physiology and beyond the lived experience of most people, even today.
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Attention to the material cultures of the eighteenth-century log-book and journal reveal that media of navigation, through which to imagine distant, and not proximal, relations, might not be as remote as we would like to think.
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Why did the failure to discover a cure for scurvy not seriously impede the work of territorial discovery of those involved in reconnoitering the unknown lands of the South Seas?