Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage
Deborah Cramer
The Atlantic may be the “most studied of oceans,” but according to writer Deborah Cramer, we still “barely know” it. A good way to get better acquainted is to read Cramer’s eloquent natural history, Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage, recently released in paperback (Norton, $15.95). From the vantage of a traveling research vessel, Cramer illuminates the spectacles that lie just beyond human sight: migrating fish, invisible currents, the life forms that thrive in the barren Sargasso Sea. Human-wrought destruction is vividly evoked, but Cramer’s book takes its cue from “the voice of the sea,” which tells us “we humans are ... inextricably linked to this mysterious, watery place.”
—Louis Bayard
