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Coastlines you've already read about

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As seen in

From: The Haunting Whistle of the Sea

Where the Ama still dive, and villages like Osatsu open their huts to visitors.

As seen in

From: Silver Harvesters

St Ives, Mevagissey, Newlyn, the harbors that once ran on pilchards.

As seen in

From: The Spy Coast

The fog, the empty harbors in the off season, the coastline Gerritsen wrote as a battlefield.

As read in

From: The Wager, Geo Lit

The wild southern coastline where the HMS Wager ran aground in 1741.

As read in

From: Sea Stories, Geo Lit

Coronado and the training beaches where McRaven's memoir begins.

As read in

From: Moby-Dick, Geo Lit

Whaling towns where the museums still smell faintly of oil and rope.

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