America's Ocean Wilderness

John Lyman Book Prize From whaling museums to National Geographic television specials to "tiki bars," the high seas have enchanted modern Americans as an adventurous frontier. And as contemporary explorers have discovered a new wilderness in the world's oceans, their depictions of the depths have influenced how we view these largely uncharted realms. America's Ocean Wilderness is a cultural history of America's exploration of the ocean and the first book to critically analyze the legacies of sev