The Narrow Sea is twenty-one miles at the narrows and that single figure produces nearly everything else about it. It is too wide to police, because no force can watch a frontage that long against hulls that can cross in a night. It is too narrow to forget, because both shores are visible from each other and no arrangement on either can be made without reference to the other.
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Book VII, chapter 10
Twenty-One Miles, and What a Traveller Expects
14 min read
Book VII, chapter 11Lyonnais, and What a Banner Court Is
17 min read
Book VII, chapter 12The Colour Cities, and Friendships That Are Sold
18 min read
Book VII, chapter 13The Near-Coast Ports, and Port Leonis
17 min read
Book VII, chapter 14Dike, Lock, Causeway, and Bell
15 min read
Book VII, chapter 17Prussland, and an Order That Permits a Market
23 min read
Book VII, chapter 18The Free Ports of the White Lands
22 min read
Book VII, chapter 19The Northern Cities, and the Raiders Beyond Them
18 min read
Book VII, chapter 20The Inner Sea, and Its Terrible Doubleness
28 min read
Book VII, chapter 21The Central Ports, and the Discipline Each Teaches
21 min read
Book VII, chapter 22The Western Crescent, and the Courts of Ash
16 min read
Book VII, chapter 24The Edge Ports, and What a Station Really Is
21 min read
Book VII, chapter 25The Interior, and the Ordeal of Crossing It
24 min read
Book VII, chapter 27The Western Continent, and the Legend Attached to It
19 min read
Book VII, chapter 28Asia, and a Refinement That Is Not Exotic
25 min read