{"product_id":"9781443820714","title":"This Watery World: Humans and the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. From reflections on the ocean as metaphor to shark documentaries and Jaws, from Hemingway's organic ecology to Melville's tropic-birds and the establishment of a Puerto Rican maritime preserve, This Watery World reminds us that-onshore and inland-we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. When I put this book down I was reminded of the Hyderabadi poet Sarojini Naidu: The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all. -Professor Ashton Nichols, editor of Romantic Natural Histories and author of The Poetics of Epiphany and The Revolutionary I\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge Scholars Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048278540528,"sku":"9781443820714","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781443820714_p0.jpg?v=1763812176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781443820714","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}