The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Bodley Head, 560pp, £18.99/$30 Is the sea interesting? Voyages across the waters have inspired great writers from Homer to Herman Melville, but what about the actual ocean? Can we say anything worthwhile about it? The great Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov was uncertain, finding the way other authors used it

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