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From Jamaica Inn to Treasure Island: the best books about the sea
Author Emma Stonex shares her favourites, including psychological novels by John Fowles and Iris Murdoch, and an illuminating history of lighthouses
Storm warning . Beachy Head lighthouse, East Sussex. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Storm warning . Beachy Head lighthouse, East Sussex. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
EmmaStonex
Sat 17 Apr 2021 07.30 EDT
I miss the sea. Through lockdown in particular I have envied people who live on the coast, and have read tales of wild swimming on cold mornings with deep longing, able almost to taste the salt and hear the waves, and sense, as I do when I look out to sea, that the universe is bigger than this moment we’re in. In times of crisis – individual and collective – the sea reminds us that all is not lost. Nature is reckless and beautiful; all this shall pass; she knows what she’s doing. We talk about feeling “all at sea” as a way of capturing confusion or loss, but