Contents 



Part I: Portrait of an Ocean 



1 About this Book ii 



2 The Structure of the Atlantic i8 



3 Behavior of the Atlantic 37 



4 The Meaning of the Atlantic 55 



Part II: Discovery and Early 

 History 



5 River of Ocean — Primitive 73 



6 Atlantis — Birth and Death of Science 93 



7 First Across the Atlantic 103 



8 The New World in the North 117 



9 Iberian Conquest 132 



10 Guns and Gold; Faith and Food 152 



11 To Their New Homes 170 



12 Ships and Cargoes 185 



Part III: Modern History 



13 The Whalers 199 



14 The Slavers 217 



15 The Packets 232 



16 Seaman's Ocean — Lt. M. F. Maury, USN 249 



17 The Clippers 262 



