A Fabulous Kingdom

Charles Officer received his Ph.D from Columbia University and is a Research Professor in the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is the author of several books, including Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet (along with Jake Page, OUP). Jake Page is a freelance science writer, essayist and novelist, who has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, and many other magazines. He is the author of several books, including A Certain Malice.

The nature of the place; sea lungs, godly commerce, and projections; 3 Frizadores for Cathayo and the open Polar sea; fool's gold, interest in exploration and historians; Hooch, and mutiny; connubial fidelity, and the Vicar of Wakefield; open seas and closed minds; anything is good that don't poison you; three faces of ambition; amateurs, pros, and cons; from Polar larks to canary-watching.