We sit rocked by swells of grey water, waiting for the whale. Our boat is a small thing, easily missed by a wheeling bird overhead, easily discarded by the ocean around us.

We sit rocked by swells of grey water, waiting for the whale. Our boat is a small thing, easily missed by a wheeling bird overhead, easily discarded by the ocean around us.
Buy, borrow, or steal was the motto. Alexandria was the capital of world knowledge, and ships using its coast were searched for books of any kind.