I am grateful to the following publishers for permission to reproduce material: Oxford University Press, for the quotation from Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Argonautica, Richard Hunter (translator), Oxford World’s Classics Series, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 39-40; Dover Publications, for the quote from Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, edited by Grenfell Price, 1990, p. 64; and Penguin Group (USA) for the quote from “Book 5: Odysseus-Nymph and Shipwreck,” pp. 161-162, The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles (translator), copyright © 1996 by Robert Fagles. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA).
(1) Erik Akiskalian; (2) United States Navy; (3) Richard Bennett; (4) Richard Bennett; (5A) David Groverman; (5B) John Lockwood; (6) Chris Garrett; (7) United States Navy; (8) United States Navy; (9) Henry Helbush; (10) Hellmut Issels / Peter Carrette Icon Images; (11) Eugene Kim/Faye Wachs; (12) Koos van der Lende; (13) John
Lockwood; (14) Krister Brzezinski, Mariners Weather Log; (15) United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service Historic photos.
All figures by Kurt Mueller. Original source for all figures is Craig B. Smith, except as noted: (4) adopted from Prager (2000), p. 88; (8) adopted from Muga, Chapter 6 in Wilson (1984), p. 159 and Young (1999), p. 27; (9) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-National Weather Service; (10) adopted from Young (1999), p. 29: (11) adopted from Kinsman (1965), p. 11: (12) adopted from Young (1999), p. 150; (13) adopted from Bryant (2001) p. 26; (15) adopted from Bryant (2001), p. 153; (18) adopted from Bitner-Gregersen (2002), p. 97.