Tracks on the Ocean

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Tracks on the Ocean is written by Sara Caputo and published by Profile Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1782838872 (ISBN 10) and 9781782838876 (ISBN 13).

Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize 'Enthralling' Philip Ball 'Ingenious' Sujit Sivasundaram In Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped maps and the way that we view the world. From Captain Cook's route across the South Seas to the disorientating power of digital technology, the tracks we've left on the oceans - trading, exploring and conquering - are a hidden record of humanity's impact on the planet. Revealing their histories, Caputo uncovers a fascinating new history of maritime travel and modernity. Weaving human history, cartography, literature and climate science, Tracks on the Ocean reveals how, on the path to discovery, we have changed the world.