Recs if you like The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail...
Lost at Sea (water symbolism)
Transformation. Destruction. Renewal. Water holds significance symbolism throughout literature. Take a DIVE into books where water elements play a DEEP role.
Special Interest: Moby-Dick
A whale of a rabbit trail
(nonfiction about whales, whaling, Herman Melville, the American Renaissance, colonialism, Indigenous and queer representation in American literature, and other questions raised in Moby-Dick)
Looking for fiction? Check out my list Moby-Dick Redux.
Bancroft Prize Winners
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. The award goes back to 1948 with two winners every year, so I'm adding them starting with the most recent.
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