The Sea (La Mer) (Annotated)

Jules Michelet's The Sea (La Mer) is a luminous work of nineteenth-century natural history, at once scientific meditation, prose poem, and moral allegory. Moving from tides, storms, marine life, and coastal peoples to the ocean's vast symbolic meanings, Michelet writes in a Romantic style that fuses observation with visionary intensity. The book belongs to the era when natural science, travel writ...