Bush's 'war on terror' as experienced by an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest.

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award.

'Teems with acerbic humour ... 600 relentlessly intelligent pages of erudite, witty and combative prose.' Patrick McGrath, Guardian 'Book of the Week'

The sea has served as a source of inspiration for writers throughout the ages. Now, in The Oxford Book of the Sea, bestselling author Jonathan Raban has compiled a remarkable anthology of our changing visions of the sea, a rich treasury of writings as varied and enthralling as the ocean itself. Arranged chronologically, and spanning everything from Anglo-Saxon poetry to modern oceanography, these excerpts capture the work of poets, novelists, scientists, and explorers. We read pieces from Samuel Eliot Morison, James Boswell, Charles Dickens, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, and John Barth,...