The Interior of the Ruins, J.M.W. Turner, 1795, © Tate, London 2013; ‘Julia Margaret Cameron’, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, National Portrait Gallery; Saint Anthony the Abbot and Saint Paul, the First Hermit, Diego Velázquez, c.1634, © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; ‘St Cuthbert and the otters’, Bede’s Prose Life of St Cuthbert, © British Library, Yates Thomson f24; ‘The Only Known Photograph of God’, Thomas Merton, the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University; ‘John Hunter’s House’, Jesse Foot, The Life of John Hunter, 1794, Wellcome Library; ‘Beaked Whale’, unknown artist, Uppsala University Art Collections; ‘Sperm whales, Azores’, Andrew Sutton, Nice Images; Portrait of Truganini, Benjamin Duterrau, c.1835, National Library of Australia; The Conciliation, Benjamin Duterrau, Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; ‘The last of the race’, Henry A. Frith, 1866, National Library of Australia; ‘Thylacine at Beaumaris Zoo’, Dr David Fleay, 1933, courtesy of the International Thylacine Specimen Database. ‘Philip Hoare, Weston Shore’, photograph by Peter Wilson. All other illustrations from the author’s collection.
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2. The white sea
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3. The inland sea
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4. The azure sea
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5. The sea of serendipity
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