Recovered objects constrain a story of a submerged landscape
Present concrete inputs and the intermediate reasoning steps that connect them to a conclusion, including a revealing wrong move or alternative where available.
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson · 81 weeksRecovered objects constrain a story of a submerged landscape
SHORT SOURCE EXCERPT“In this strange debris of the fishing nets”
After rejecting an Atlantic Ridge identification of Atlantis on chronological grounds, Carson describes Dogger Bank as a different instance of drowned land. She narrates a possible sequence of forest, animal and human life and inundation, then identifies the peat, bones, wood and implements recovered by trawling as the materials scientists used to reconstruct the landscape.
The recovery account exposes the evidentiary basis beneath the preceding narrative. The chapter also leaves a boundary between the inferred former environment and the suggested transmission of an Atlantis-like story.
The source in context.
A history of sounding leads into the geography of the ocean floor, including slopes, canyons and mountains. Discussion of lost lands separates an Atlantis identification from the evidence Carson uses to reconstruct the submerged landscape of Dogger Bank.
Open this chapterWhat this example supports
The recovery account exposes the evidentiary basis beneath the preceding narrative. The chapter also leaves a boundary between the inferred former environment and the suggested transmission of an Atlantis-like story.
Its limit
The proposed escape and communication by prehistoric people are narrated with explicit speculation. A real submerged landscape is not evidence that it is the legendary Atlantis or that a particular oral tradition descended from it.
Source & edition
Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us; supplied Open Road Integrated Media ebook, publication statement 2011, ISBN 9781453214763; includes the Preface to the 1961 Edition and revision notes alongside the earlier narrative.
Supplied text, lines 665–681. The short quotation is checked against the source.
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supplied Open Road Integrated Media ebook, publication statement 2011, ISBN 9781453214763; includes the Preface to the 1961 Edition and revision notes alongside the earlier narrative