Alternative Table of Contents

(For those who prefer to explore the narrative geographically)

Preface

FOR EVERYONE

1. Minus One Hundred Twenty-Two Meters and Climbing

WESTERN EUROPE

2. Doggerland

5. “Men Were Swept Away by Waves”

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

THE MEDITERRANEAN, MESOPOTAMIA, AND THE NILE

3. Euxine and Ta-Mehu

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

6. “The Whole Shoreline Filled”

7. “The Abyss of the Depths Was Uncovered”

SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN

8. “The Whole Is Now One Festering Mess”

11. A Right to Subsistence

9. The Golden Waterway

10. “Wave in the Harbor”

ISLANDS (ALASKA, PACIFIC, AND INDIAN OCEAN)

12. The Dilemma of Islands

NORTH AMERICA

13. “The Crookedest River in the World”

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Author’s Note

A Note on the Author

Also by Brian Fagan