Song for the blue ocean : encounters along the world's coasts and beneath the seas
Carl Safina (Author)
"To understand the connections between the sea and our own survival, Carl Safina, a world-respected scientist and fisherman, probes for truth in this tour of the oceans and their peoples. Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery beneath the world's changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, political analysis, and science into a story about the human condition." "We accompany people whose lives and occupations in and by the oceans unfold in a drama of clashing personal histories and daily struggles for existence." "We learn of greed and excess relationships little different from nineteenth century plunder that destroyed the buffalo. As with the moon's effect on tides, Safina demonstrates that today's unregulated global economy exerts a tremendous pull on the world's oceans. But we also read dramatic and hopeful stories of the seas's revival and replenishment. In the end, we find reasons for hopefulness in unlikely places - a dangerous, heavily armed fishing village on a remote island near the Indonesian border and in the waters of the Atlantic, where the striped bass have undergone an astounding revival."--Jacket
xvii, 458 pages : maps ; 25 cm
9780805046717, 9780805061222, 0805046712, 0805061223
36640757
Book one : Northeast. The Gulf of Maine
Ogunquit
Cape Cod Bay
Shores of three continents
South of Block
Book two : Northwest. Yaquina Head
Yachats
Valley of Giants, mountains of gods
On the ground
Astoria
Columbia Gorge
The Dalles and Umatilla
Golden State
Book three : Far Pacific. Malakal
Korror
Ollei
Hong Kong
Sulu
Epilogue
"A John Macrae book."