After decades writing the history of France, Jules Michelet turned to the ocean. Here he moves from the shore and the fear of the deep to tides, currents and storms, then to the teeming life of the water — crabs, shellfish, corals, fish and whales — and closes on the sea as a place of human health and renewal.
Natural history written with the fervour of a historian of revolutions, for anyone who loves the coast. Download the free EPUB.