Book description
Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of
the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is
here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition which
includes the acclaimed essay Sea Burial.
James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Gerontius, winner of a
Whitbread Prize; Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With
Water; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy Cooking With Fernet
Branca, Amazing Disgrace and Rancid Pansies.
