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  • Raffles, Sir S.
    1
  • Reagan, Nancy
    1
    n
  • Reagan, Ronald
    1
    ,
    2
    n
  • Réaumur, R. A.
    1
  • Reclaim
    , HMS
    1
  • Red Underwing moth
    1
  • Rice, A. L.
    1
    n
  • Richard Montgomery
    1
  • Robinson Crusoe
    1
  • Rockall
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D.
    1
  • Ross, Sir James Clark
    1
  • Ross, Sir John
    1
    ,
    2
  • Rothman, Brian
    1
    n
  • Rowbotham, S. B.
    1
  • Ruskin, John
    1
  • Russell, Bertrand
    1
  • Russell, E. S.
    1
  • Rutherford, Ernest
    1
  • Rymsdyk, Jan van
    1
  • Saint-Exupéry, A. de
    1
  • Samal
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Sama sellang
    (King of the fishes)
    1
  • Sarah Ann Is.
    1
  • Savage, V. R.
    1
    n
  • Scapa Flow
    1
  • Schlee, Susan
    1
    ,
    2
    n
  • Schliemann, H.
    1
  • science fiction
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Scorpion
    , USS
    1
    ,
    2
  • Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon
    1
  • Scott, Sir Walter
    1
  • Scripps Institute of Oceanography
    1
    n
    ,
    2
  • scuba gear
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • ‘Sealand’
    1
    n
  • sea lions
    1
  • seals
    1
    ,
    2
  • seasickness
    1
  • sea whips
    1
  • Selkirk, Alexander
    1
  • sensory deprivation
    1
  • Shakespeare, W.
    1
  • sharks
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  • Sharp, Bartholomew
    1
  • sheep, as fuel
    1
  • Shelford, W. O.
    1
  • Shroud of Turin
    1
  • Soloviev, S. L.
    1
  • Somerville, Boyle
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • sonar
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
  • sounding
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • souvenirs
    1
  • Soviet Academy of Sciences
    1
  • Soviet Atlas of the Pacific Ocean
    1
  • space
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • space motion sickness (SMS)
    1
    n
  • spear gun
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Spilsbury, Bernard
    1
    n
  • St. Brandan Is.
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Stevens, Wallace
    1
    n
  • Stewart
    , USS
    1
  • St Francis of Assisi (body odour of)
    1
    n
  • Stokes, William (death and burial of)
    1
  • Stommel, H.
    1
    n
  • ‘streamer’ (hydrophone)
    1
  • Suez Canal
    1
  • superstitions
    1
    ,
    2
  • Swain’s Is.
    1
  • swim, fishermen’s inability to
    1
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The
    1
  • Tabernacle, the
    1
  • TAC (total allowable catch)
    1
  • Takuyo
    , R/V
    1
    n
  • Tausug
    1
    ,
    2
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord (131),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Teo, S. S.
    1
    n
  • Terror
    , HMS
    1
  • Theophilus of Antioch
    1
  • thermocline
    1
    ,
    2
  • The Times Atlas of the World
    1
  • Thomson, d’A. W.
    1
    n
  • Thomson, C. Wyville
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
  • Thomson, K. S.
    1
    n
  • time, and the sea Ch. 4,
    passim
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Titanic
    , RMS
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
  • toadfish
    1
  • ‘Topological Mourning Syndrome’
    1
    n
  • Traherne, J. E.
    1
    n
  • trawling
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Trieste
    (bathyscaphe)
    1
  • trilobites
    1
    ,
    2
  • tripang
    (194),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Tuan, Yi-fu
    1
    n,
    2
  • Tutankhamun
    1
    ,
    2
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
    1
  • Udintsev, Glebb
    1
    n
    ,
    2
  • UFOlogy
    1
  • ultraviolet vision
    1
    ,
    2
  • US Fish Commission
    1
  • US Geological Survey (USGS)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • US National Marine Fisheries Service
    1
    n
  • Ussher, James, Archbishop
    1
  • Utah
    , USS
    1
  • utopias
    1
    ,
    2
  • Vance, Jack
    1
  • Vangoudy, Robert de
    1
  • Vector
    , M/T
    1
  • vent communities
    1
    n
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Venter, E. L.
    1
  • Vietnamese ‘boat people’
    1
  • Voltaire
    1
  • Webster, W. H. B.
    1
    ,
    2
  • Weddell, James
    1
  • Wegener, Alfred
    1
    ,
    2
  • Welwitschia mirabilis
    1
  • Wheeler Field, Oahu
    1
  • wild, the
    1
  • wilderness
    1
  • Woods Hole
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Woolf, Virginia
    1
  • Wreckers
    1
  • Yakuza
    1
    ,
    2
  • Yamamoto, Soji
    1
  • year class
    1
  • Yellow Underwing moth
    1
  • zetetics
    1
  • zoophytes
    1
    ,
    2

James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of
Gerontius
, winner of a Whitbread Prize;
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With Water
; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy
Cooking With Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace
and
Rancid Pansies
.

This ebook edition published in 2010
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA

All rights reserved
© James Hamilton-Paterson, 1992, 1998
Preface © James Hamilton-Paterson, 2007

‘Sea Burial’ previously appeared in
Granta
61, April 1998

The right of James Hamilton-Paterson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

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