Contents

Preface

1. Minus One Hundred Twenty-Two Meters and Climbing

MILLENNIA OF DRAMATIC CHANGE

2. Doggerland

3. Euxine and Ta-Mehu

4. “Marduk Laid a Reed on the Face of the Waters”

CATASTROPHIC FORCES

5. “Men Were Swept Away by Waves”

6. “The Whole Shoreline Filled”

7. “The Abyss of the Depths Was Uncovered”

8. “The Whole Is Now One Festering Mess”

9. The Golden Waterway

10. “Wave in the Harbor”

CHALLENGING INUNDATIONS

11. A Right to Subsistence

12. The Dilemma of Islands

13. “The Crookedest River in the World”

14. “Here the Tide Is Ruled, by the Wind, the Moon and Us”

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Author’s Note

A Note on the Author

Also by Brian Fagan