Title Page
Dedication
Preface to new edition
Acknowledgements
1 CHARTS AND NAMING
‘Nothing is more tedious than a landscape without names’
MARGINALIA: Zetetics
2 ISLANDS AND BOUNDARIES
Objects of desire
MARGINALIA: The Isles of Britain
3 REEFS AND SEEING
Sensing the oblique
MARGINALIA: Souvenirs
4 WRECKS AND DEATH
A stitch through the nostrils
MARGINALIA: Seasickness
5 DEEPS AND THE DARK
The monsters within
MARGINALIA: Dating the Earth
6 FISHING AND LOSS
‘The beauty been’
MARGINALIA: Parrotfish
7 PIRATES AND NOMADS
Poems to Tecla
MARGINALIA: Steamers/Streamers
8 SEA BURIAL
Index
About the Author
Copyright