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RISING TIDE FALLING STAR Also by Philip Hoare Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant Noel Coward: A Biography Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War(cid:1) Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia(cid:1) The Whale The Sea Inside RISING TIDE FALLING STAR In Search of the Soul of the Sea PPhhiilliipp HHooaarree THE UNIFVOERUSIRTTY HO FE CSHTIACTAGEO · PLRonEdSSo n• Chicago The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 © 2018 by Philip Hoare All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2018 Printed in the United States of America 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56049-6 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56052-6 (paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56066-3 (e-book) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226560663.001.0001 First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hoare, Philip, author. Title: Risingtidefallingstar : in search of the soul of the sea / Philip Hoare. Other titles: Rising tide falling star Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Identifiers: LCCN 2017047641 | ISBN 9780226560496 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226560526 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226560663 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Ocean—Popular works. | Ocean—Social aspects. | Ocean—Psy- chological aspects. | Ocean and civilization. | Marine animals. | Sea in literature. | Hoare, Philip. Classification: LCC GC21 .H5829 2018 | DDC 304.209162—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017047641 This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). For Pat THE RISING SEA 5 HE GAZES TO THE SHORE 29 THE STAR LIKE SORROWS OF IMMORTAL EYES 73 SOMETHING AMAZING 123 THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA 167 ZERO AND EVERYTHING TOGETHER 223 UNDER A GREEN SEA 257 THE HANDSOME SAILOR 301 STELLA MARIS 347 THE SEA THAT RAGED NO MORE 387 Chapter initial illustrations by Joe Lyward ‘The sea, everywhere the sea, and no one looking at it’ dany laferrière
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