Natural History

The Sea

by Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet, the great historian of France, turned in his late fifties to books about nature, written with his wife Athénaïs: the bird, the insect, the mountain, and in 1861 the sea. It is less a work of science than a long, impassioned meditation on the ocean as the mother of life. It is none the worse for that.

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Reading time

About 5 hr 55 min

Where to find it

Captain Nemo’s Salon

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #42845. In the public domain in the United States.