Order History
Premium Membership & Rewards
Help Center / FAQ
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Paperback
$26.00
Now through 9/7, Premium & Rewards Members Earn Double Stamps! 10 stamps = $5 reward.
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.
Select a store to view item availability.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
A sweeping environmental history of the North Atlantic, The Mortal Sea reveals how centuries of fishing turned a rich ocean into an “exhausted sea” and offers a powerful cautionary tale about our precarious relationship with the natural world.
Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdepend...
A sweeping environmental history of the North Atlantic, The Mortal Sea reveals how centuries of fishing turned a rich ocean into an “exhausted sea” and offers a powerful cautionary tale about our precarious relationship with the natural world.
Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdepend...
You May Also Like
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Politics of Place
Paperback
$21.00
Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst
Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series
Hardcover
$22.40
$32.00
