Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage by Deborah Cramer, W. W. Norton, £22, ISBN 0393020193
ITS waters reach from the Arctic ice to the cold shores of Antarctica, and bring heat, fish and floating bits of plastic from the sunny Caribbean to the grey fjords of Norway.
The Atlantic Ocean, the subject of Deborah Cramer’s dense yet poetic book, has long been travelled, yet we know little about its depths. Cramer, a science writer who has read a formidable number of original sources and secondary texts, covers everything from the beginnings of oceans and life itself to global warming and PCB pollution. History, geology and warnings of…
