| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. By Helen M. Rozwadowski. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xv + 276 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.

To help establish a viable "land ethic," Aldo Leopold, in Sand County Almanac, called on historians to study the past relationship between humans and the natural world. While environmental historians have striven to answer Leopold's call, they have largely ignored the world's oceans. Environmental history has been, by and large, terrestrial history. Carl Safina recently suggested that a concomitant "sea ethic" is now required, one that likewise must rest on an awareness of the ocean's history, one intricately linked to the human experience. Fathoming the Ocean examines a crucial period in Anglo-American history when the ocean became culturally, politically, and economically significant. It explores how scientists and sailors in the mid-nineteenth century perceived, interacted with, and placed value on the ocean as a place of work, as a place of leisure, and significantly, as a place of scientific study. Bridging environmental history and the history of science and technology, Rozwadowski traces the transformation of the ocean from an empty and seemingly dangerous void in the 1830s to a place amenable to understanding and control by the 1880s.

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