M &D Read, Chap 10 Beyond the sea

[Mark Kohut]

 p. 95 -
> "...having travers'd the Sea"
> Traverse is the family name in ATD and Vineland. Metaphor, fer sure. For more, see ch. 3, p. 14

Sea mattered in M & D time
quests, epic (and counter-epic) sagas thru the whole oeuvre.
Generational family drama on land.

Related: historian Osterhammel--see Kai's post--who in the book cited
has written a world history from
truths gathered from the best original research in major books of the
best historians. A leading edge consensus
history not a new thesis. So, in that spirit he thinks historians
O'Neill have the right word to describe the growing
connectedness of the world starting in the nineteenth century:

(Human) Webs.....
Webb Traverse.
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