The ocean reader: history, culture, politics

The Roorda/Doyle Collection

The Egyptian Sea of Nun / Samuel A. B. Mercer

Babylon by the Sea / Anonymous

Aphrodite Born From Sea-Spray / Hesiod

Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese Sea Gods, / Ō no Yasumaro

The Pacific Islanders' Angry Ocean God / Sir George Grey

Pele Loses Her Temper / Earl Dutch Baldwin

The Hindu Ocean Gods / E. Washburn Hopkins

The Finnish Sea Mother/ Anonymous

The Sea-Creating, Rainbow-Loving Serpent God of Haiti / Joseph J. Williams

Did Comets Bring Water to Earth? / Kimberly M. Burtnyk

Before the Great Extinctions / Jean-Bernard Caron

The First Aussies / Fran Dorey

A New View of the Ainu / David H. Gremillion

The Surfing Chinchorro of Chile / Victoria Castro, Vivien G. Standen, and Bernardo T. Arriaza

Dugout Canoes / Anonymous

Pacific Island Open Ocean Navigation / David Lewis

The Earliest Seafarers in the Mediterranean and the Near East / George Bass

Chinese Voyages on the Indian Ocean / Zheng He

Arab Voyages on the Indian Ocean / Paul Lunde

A Chart of the Wet Blue Yonder, 1512 / Jan ze Stobnicy

No Welcome for Newcomers in New Zealand / Abel Janszoon Tasman

The Oceanic Captain Kirk / William Reynolds

A Half Mile Down / William Beebe

Walking on the Seafloor / Sylvia Earle

Descent to the Deepest Deep / Jamie Condliffe

Rubber Duckies Navigate the Northwest Passage / Eric Paul Roorda

Basque Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean / Alex Aguilar

The Tragedy of the Mackerel / George Brown Goode

The Tragedy of the Menhaden / Genio C. Scott

The Perils of South Pacific Whaling / Nelson Hadley Cole

The Collapse of Newfoundland Cod / Greenpeace

The Death of Coral Reefs / Bob Stewart

The Maritime Silk Road / Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong

Navigating the Indian Ocean in the 1300s / Ibn Battuta

The Ocean : Bridge or Moat? / Benjamin Labaree

Surviving the Slave Trade / Olaudah Equiano

Hating the China Trade / Frederick Law Olmsted

About All Kinds of Ships / Mark Twain

Loving Cape Horn / Irving Johnson

"Bitter Strength" : the International "Coolie" Trade / The Chinese Cuba Commission Report of 1876

The Container Ship / Roz Hamlett

The Epic Galley Battle of the Ancient Sea / Herodotus

The Crest of Islamic Sea Power / Matthew Merighi

Elizabethan England's Plausibly Deniable War in the Pacific Ocean / Francis Pretty

The Iconic Tactic of the Age of Sail / Godfrey Basil Mundy and Gilbert Blane

Captain Marryat's War / Frederick Marryat

World War I Beneath the Waves / Captain Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim

The Far-Flung Battle of Midway / Office of Naval Intelligence

The Barents Sea, Most Dangerous Waters of World War II / Jack Bowman

The Unfinished Cold War at Sea / Anatoly Miranovsky

China Returns to the Ocean / The U.S. Naval War College

The Sea Peoples / Shelley Wachsmann

Patrick and the Pirates / John Bagnell Bury

The Pirates of the Mediterranean / Frederic C. Lane

The First Pirate of the Caribbean : Christopher Columbus / Michele de Cuneo

American Sea Rovers / Alexander Exquemelin

Born to be Hanged / Captain Charles Johnson

The Dutch "Pirate Admiral" / Jan Pieter Heije

The Chinese "Pirate Admiral," / Koxinga

Song of the Pirate / Jos, de Espronceda

Somali Pirates Attack a Cruise Ship / Eric Paul Roorda

Shipwrecked by Worms, Saved by Canoe : The Last Voyage of Columbus / Diego Méndez

The Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea / John Jea

Pandora's Box / Peter Heywood

The Real Moby-Dick / Owen Chase

The Castaway / Herman Melville

"Just Keep Rowing...!" / William Hale

Life of Poon / Poon Lim

A Three-Hour Tour Becomes a Four-Month Ordeal / Richard Van Pham

The Asian Sea Goddess / Eric Paul Roorda

The Hajj by Sea / Hadji Khan and Wilfrid Sparroy

Saints of the Sea / Durr Freedley

Missionary to Micronesia / Hiram Bingham

The Voyage / Johann Goethe

The Northern Sea / Mary Howitt

The World Below the Brine / Walt Whitman

Far Off-Shore / Herman Melville

The Ninth Wave / Ivan Aivazovsky

Sea Pictures / Edward Elgar

Voyage to Montevideo / Dino Campana

The Ballad of the Seawater / Federico García Lorca

Surfing : A Royal Sport / Jack London

By the Sea / Anonymous

The Compleat Angler / Izaak Walton

Women and Children Next : The Family Goes to Sea / Lady Brassey

The First Solo Circumnavigation / Joshua Slocum

The Cruise / G. B. Barrows

The Compleat Goggler / Guy Gilpatric

Round the World! : Journal of a Sailing Voyage "From a Teen's Point of View" / Katrina Bercaw

The Pliny Deep / Pliny the Elder

Leonardo's Notes on the Ocean / Leonardo da Vinci

The Discovery of the Gulf Stream / Benjamin Franklin

Celestial Navigation for the People / Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch

The Ocean and the Atmosphere / Matthew Fontaine Maury

Hurrah for the Dredge! / Edward Forbes

Return of the Fossil Fish / J. L. B. Smith

Goodbye, Plankton / William Beebe

Ocean Acidification / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Blue Immigrants : The Marine Biology of Maritime History / James T. Carlton

The First Dead Zone / The University of Michigan and Matt Rota

The First Trash Vortex / Charles Moore

The Rise of Slime / Jeremy Jackson

The Tragic Common Home of the Ocean / Pope Francis.