About 70 percent of the planet is covered by oceans, and Frenchmarine photographer
Plisson here offers arresting images of these vastbodies of water in all their
incarnations. In his preface, PrixGoncourt-winning writer Yann Queffelec recalls
the sea's "perpetual,static velocity," and these overwhelming photographs-400 in
all-are atestament to that paradox. Some portray human interaction with theocean:
fisherman casting their lines from a craggy jetty; waves crashing over a railing,
soaking onlookers; hundreds ofpleasure-seekers wading into the water's edge on
a summer day. Others depict the sea's vast and mottled surface, with nary a ship
insight. The book's design, which positions all the captions at the end, allows
readers to be swept up by the remarkable images. Some photosare panoramas,
spanning four fold-out pages. From Portugal to Polynesia, Plisson succeeds in
documenting the sea's tremendouspresence.

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