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American writer Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851 but it took decades before finally it was regarded as a great American novel, and worthy of its place amongst the greatest texts of humankind. This edition offers a specially written introduction to contextualise the book.

Fortælleren i denne korte roman ser tilbage på en gang hun rejste med kystbåden fra det nordvestligste Island til Reykjavik. Her kommer hun til at dele kahyt med en ældre, gift kvinde, Salome eller Sala, som i brudstykker afdækker sit livs historie – om alt det, der har fyldt mest i tilværelsen: børnene, kærligheden, synden, arbejdet, det daglige slid for at overleve i en barsk natur. Alt sammen berettes det frem i en intens, intim atmosfære skabt under samtalens tillid. I hjemlandet er Í sama klefa (1981) det af Jakobína Sigurðardóttirs værker, der læses mest og optrykkes oftest. Den islandske titel kan både betyde ”i samme kahyt” og ”i samme celle” – med den danske titel betones både romanens konkrete ramme og dens almene kvindehistoriske dimension.

Prosaen er blevet kaldt den moderne litteraturs maskinrum, fordi den breder litteraturens virkefelt ud. Inden for nyere prosateori beskrives prosaen som verdensvendt, rummelig, operativ, genreoverskridende, virkelighedsudvidende og hybrid.Antologiens bidrag indeholder grundlæggende refleksioner over prosaen i en modernistisk kontekst og over dens forhold til lyrik og poesi. Det geografiske perspektiv i romaner og essays har særlig bevågenhed blandt bidragsyderne og kobles til en ekspanderende kontekst af opdagelsesrejser, kolonisering og globalisering og de dermed forbundne kulturmøder. I denne henseende repræsenterer bidragene et bredt udsnit af ældre og nyere, store og små litterære geografier i og uden for Europa. Prosaen spiller fint sammen med den opprioritering af sted og rum, som vi har set vokse frem inden for de senere årtiers litteratur og forskning i litteratur.Med denne antologi stiger vi ombord for at nærme os prosaens radierende felter. Der er undervejs stoppesteder i Island, Færøerne, Danmark, Norge, Sverige, Italien og Nord- og Sydamerika. Prosaen selv ser ud til at være ustoppelig.

From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives.Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom shell meet again soon. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signes sailboat. As David and Lou discover Signes personal effects, her long ago journey becomes inexorably linked to their own. An evocative tale of the search for love and connection, The End of the Ocean is a profoundly moving father daughter story of survivaland a clarion call for climate action.

Livet som sømand er noget helt særligt.Styrmand Niels Simon Nielsen har igennem et langt liv til søs samlet stoffet til denne bog og har et ganske særligt talent for at få øje på den gode historie og ikke mindst fortælle den. Her får læseren god underholdning og muligheden for at få et indblik i en helt særlig verden. Samtidig afspejler anekdoterne flere årtier i den danske handelsflåde og bliver dermed til den lille historieskrivning i øjenhøjde, som mange kolleger kan nikke genkendende til. Niels Simon Nielsen fortæller i en stribe anekdoter om episoder af alle slags til søs – lige fra de sjove og de grove til de tankevækkende, de pinlige og de ekstreme. Alle sammen episoder, der er kendetegnet ved at foregå i et tæt miljø. Man har kun det, man har, og dem, man er omgivet af – langt væk hjemmefra. Med sådan et udgangspunkt kan der ske lidt af hvert – og det gør der – velkommen ombord!

Capt. Charley's second novel examines life at sea through the eyes of his crew Capt. Louis Gladding and his cockpit ace, Crafty. With his nearly fifty years as a professional tournament and charter fishing mate and captain, the author will take the reader throught the intrigue of an unfinished piracy at sea. The story now moves into Florida's battle cry for clean water and more transparent, improved environmental protections. Decades of suspect state and federal water management practices have been wreaking havoc and destruction on virtually all of the states waters; fresh, brackish and salt. WATER WARS is a story of an unresolved piracy off the shores of Cuba and an evil plot only partially achieved. It is a perspective of how politicians, land owners and developers have relied on greed and backdoor politics to amass incredible power and wealth at the expense of its citizens.

Computer icon, Frank Whitman,CEO of Whitman Technologies, is a man grown accustomed to winning.He has become obsessed with capturing big fish, and views the world of big game fishing as merely another arena of competition for the rich and famous. Whitman desperately covets an invitation to the exclusive Hemingway Blue Marlin Tournament held annually in Santa Fe, Cuba during the month of June. In spite of his vast newly created wealth, he lacks the connections to have an invite extended his way. Whitman's investigations lead him to a famous old marlin fisherman, Capt. Louis Gladding, who grew up in Cuba and has personally fished with the Premier himself. He traces the old captain to a small town in coastal Florida, and sends his personal aide on ahead to lure 'Cuban Louie' away from his charterboat to help get him in and win the big event. Whitman also realizes the huge computer markets laying dormant in the Carribbean which will surely open up when the Cuban power structure begins to break down. Although the aide, Scott Byrd, is in the employ of Frank Whitman, he has been planted as a spy to undermine and eventually betray the best efforts of Whitman and his new crew. Tragic consequences ensue, climaxing with an intense hunt and capture of a mighty, winning Blue Marlin.

Brought to you by Penguin. Rich with magic, mystery and the wonder of the sea, fans of The Lamplighters will fall in love with DriftThe hauntingly atmospheric English-language debut from the acclaimed Welsh author: a love story between a young Welsh woman and a Syrian mapmaker, rich with magic, mystery and the wonder of the sea. Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove. Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the coast. A violent storm will bring these two lost souls together - but other forces will soon try to tear them apart... Moving between the wild Welsh coast and war-torn Syria, Drift is a love story with a difference, a hypnotic tale of lost identity, the quest for home and the wondrous resilience of the human spirit. (c) Caryl Lewis 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the sixth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire are exiled to Australia in the ever expanding war between Napoleon and Britain."Temeraire and his fellow dragons are surely Novik's finest accomplishment."-BookPageConvicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire and Captain Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia-and into a hornet's nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh-aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are caught in the middle of a political power struggle. Their only chance to escape the fray is accepting a mission to blaze a route through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia.But the theft of a precious dragon egg turns their expedition into a desperate recovery operation-leading to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new complication in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.Don't miss any of Naomi Novik's magical Temeraire seriesHIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON • THRONE OF JADE • BLACK POWDER WAR • EMPIRE OF IVORY • VICTORY OF EAGLES • TONGUES OF SERPENTS • CRUCIBLE OF GOLD • BLOOD OF TYRANTS • LEAGUE OF DRAGONS