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unusual facts about The Sea, the Sea



Awatoto

Water activities do take place at the Awatoto river mouth just south of the industrial area, where the Clive, Ngaruroro and Tutaekuri Rivers meet the sea.

Elizabeth Trewinnard

Her husband appears in Rafael Sabatini's The Sea-Hawk as well as in a series of German sea-adventures "Seewölfe, Korsaren der Weltmeere".

Fair, Brown and Trembling

The heroine being disposed of also appears in The Twa Sisters, Bushy Bride, and The Sea-Maiden; in the latter two, the heroine must be rescued by the hero.

The Sea-Bell

Although "Looney" was composed long before Tolkien began work on The Lord of the Rings, the 1962 version is subtitled "Frodos Dreme".

The Sea, the Sea

According to Xenophon's Anabasis, "The Sea! The Sea!" (Thalatta! Thalatta!) was the shout of triumphant exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from near-certain death.

Vintage Classics

There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list, including writers such as Iris Murdoch, who won the Booker Prize for her novel, The Sea, the Sea, and also has been longlisted in the category of Lost Man Booker Prize for her novel, A Fairly Honourable Defeat.


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Šaloun's Villa

The Art Nouveau design was developed by Saloun and includes the inscription "'The Sea! the Sea!" which is thought to be a reference to the statement reported by the historian Xenophon of an army whose retreat from Persia took them to the security of the Black Sea coast.