The Watery Realm

by Lecturer of Anthropology Peter Gow

Here is an enjoyable read and an ideal gift for your water-oriented friends. It's a series of essays about the ways in which bodies of water--lakes, rivers, and seas--inspire and ignite curiosity for those who venture onto, into, or near them. The Watery Realm will no doubt initiate a most pleasurable response in the reader. Boat fanatics, beach bums, sailors, naturalists, linguists, surfers, and especially readers of maritime lore and literature will all be reminded of the many possibilities of the world of sea and shore, tall ship and kayak, lake and stream, shell and shark.

88 pages, Leather Bound

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Mark McTague · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those readers who have a love of the water (as swimmers, boaters of any type - kayak, canoe, sail, powerboat, or those who love stories of the sea (fiction of non-fiction), this short book presents several brief essays on aspects of our relation to rivers, lakes, the ocean that cause you to reflect on what this love means, what it asks of you, and what it can teach you.