The Floating Human

How did humans learn to navigate the sea? Was Magellan really the first to circumnavigate the globe? How did the sperm whale contribute to the Enlightenment? In what way did the Scottish baker Robert Dick change our view of the history of life? How do we really know how deep the ocean is? After his debut with "The Eel Gospel," Patrik Svensson has written a book about the people who have explored, mapped, tried to understand, and dominated the sea. "The Floating Human" is about the allure of the ocean, about that ancient drive that has always compelled humans to seek out the open sea. In short, it is a book about curiosity.