Great Waters: An Atlantic PassageW. W. Norton & Company, 2002 - 442 strán (strany) "If you've ever walked the shores of this great ocean...wondering what lay beyond this fine book will let you know." Bill McKibben, author ofLong Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously "Cramer...has written powerfully of the threats to its continuing productivity." William K. Reilly, Chairman, World Wildlife Fund "[A |
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Introduction | 17 |
MOVING OFFSHORE | 21 |
Waters of Life | 23 |
A Diminished Thing | 44 |
Along the Slope | 79 |
THE OPEN SEA | 85 |
The Rush of Water | 87 |
Climate and Atlantic | 108 |
The Moving Earth Beneath the Sea | 207 |
Atlantics Primordial Ancestors | 237 |
The Birth of Atlantic | 271 |
Full Circle | 305 |
Fraying Edges | 307 |
Landfall | 344 |
Notes | 367 |
Acknowledgments | 421 |
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