And in this book an opportunity is missed to examine broader notions: the changing bonds between man and sea, and the hubris of high-tech boats and aggressive, professional crews out to conquer.
Located off the southern tip of the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the Calf of Man has been a bird observatory since 1959.
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Ernest Hemingway penned The Old Man and the Sea here, and visitors can tour his nearby home.
Mr Picknett manoeuvred the lifeboat so the crew could pull the man from the sea.
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The book was The Old Man and the Sea, published first in a single issue of Life magazine.
The Old Man and the Sea is a local hangout and a delicious option for lunch or dinner.
Charlton Heston again, and a section from The Old Man and the Sea.
Dow was a man of the sea, and had observed that waves and tides gave clues to the patterns inherent in stocks.
So he was trying to make a comeback with The Old Man and the Sea, and the book, in fact, was a tremendous success.
Fifty-four years ago today, Ernest Hemingway wrote his editor at Scribner's that The Old Man and the Sea was the best he could write ever.
Huntley chose, in this country ripped apart by war, a simple story that resonated with her students: Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
And in The Old Man and the Sea the sharks seem to represent not only sharks but also the critics, who had recently attacked him over his last book.
The RNLI's Exmouth inshore lifeboat was launched, but the crew of the Wavelet managed to turn the yacht round and pull the unconscious man from the sea, a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said.
The men - who are from Cornwall but were visiting family in the area where the accident happened - had been fishing at the beach when a wave swept the younger man into the sea as they were leaving.
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 12-meter catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The family of a man swept into the sea in Blackpool during gale-force winds say they "fear the worst" because he cannot swim.
It is built on marshland and protected from the sea by resilient man-made dikes.
The man was sighted in the sea about 20 miles from the port of Rosslare as rescue helicopters were heading for the scene.
An attempt to launch a lifeboat by ferry crews after the man was spotted in the sea had to be abandoned because of the weather conditions.
He called The Sea, about a man who confronts his past in a town where he spent a childhood holiday, "a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected".
One particularly scenic spot is the Piscinas de la Fajana near the town of Barlovento, where you can take a dip in natural pools of saltwater separated from the sea only by low man-made barriers.
His skin has the soft, weathered look of a man who has spent years in the sea.
Several of its grander houses, built when a man could still harvest riches from the sea, are boarded up.
While the crew enjoyed the port town at sea level, the strongest man on earth preferred to admire Barcelona from above, choosing the hilltop of Montjuic, which overlooks the city, for its magnificent views.
The inquest heard that a local man had seen a figure in the sea who he thought might have been in a dry suit or wearing a hood but did not believe he or she was in trouble.
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That was before the man-made environmental catastrophe that left the sea a tenth of its original size.
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