The Great Deep (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Travel; science
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Oceans and islands around the world
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Science and technology
- Subjects: Islands, Sea or seafaring life, Metaphysics, 1990’s, Ecology, Meditation, Ocean, Sonar
- Locales: Islands, Oceans
There is an excellent tradition in literature, especially English literature, whereby an author takes a subject less as the guiding topic of his or her book than as the starting place for a wide-ranging series of intellectually and emotionally connected observations and meditations. During the Renaissance, Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) virtually established the genre, creating a form that essentially had no form, except for watching the author’s mind at work. Almost all of Sir Thomas Browne’s writings fall into this category, and the famous quotation from...
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