Julia Whitty

Deep Blue Home (eBook, ePUB)

An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the center of Deep Blue Homea penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on itis Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race.

Whitty's thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of extremophile life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of whale falls (what happens upon the death of a behemoth).

No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica. In the Galapagos, in one of the book's most haunting encounters, she realizes: I am about to learn the answer to my long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the water if a whale sounded directly alongsidewould she, like a person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?

This book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547487076
• Artikelnr.: 40176072

Autorenporträt

Julia Whitty's first book on oceans, The Fragile Edge, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal Award, the PEN USA Award, and the Kiriyama Prize. Her cover articles have appeared in Harper'sMagazine and Mother Jones,where she is environmental correspondent and blogger at Blue Marble.