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So... The Blue Machine is the story of the ocean told through its messengers, passengers and voyages... [I]t's a mixture of natural history... human culture and human history... It's... a physical oceanography textbook dressed up as a bunch of stories.

— Helen Czerski Blue Machine (2023)

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