The Sargasso Sea

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The sargasso sea is a big area in the atlantic ocean that's to the north of the coribbean and southeast of bermuda. It's a strange sea in that it doesn't have any land borders. Both cynthia and i first across the sargaso sea in a book title the wide sargassoSea, which is like a feminist, post colonial prequel to jane eyr. But even though i'd heard of it, i had no real idea where it was.

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