Ocean of Life The Fate of Man and the Sea

Name: Ocean of Life The Fate of Man and the Sea
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ISBN: 9780670023547

ISBN-10: 067002354X

ISBN-13: 9780670023547

Edition: 2012

Authors: Callum Roberts

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A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life.We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last twenty years we have transformed the oceans beyond…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Prologue



Changing Seas



Four and a Half Billion Years



Food from the Sea



Fewer Fish in the Sea



Winds and Currents



Life on the Move



Rising Tides



Corrosive Seas



Dead Zones and the World's Great Rivers



Unwholesome Waters



The Age of Plastic



The Not So Silent World



Aliens, Invaders, and the Homogenization of Life



Pestilence and Plague



Mare Incognitum



Ecosystems at Your Service



Changing Course



Farming the Sea



The Great Cleanup



Can We Cool Our Warming World?



A New Deal for the Oceans



Life Renewed



Saving the Giants of the Sea



Preparing for the Worst


Epilogue: The Sea Ahead



Seafood with a Clear Conscience



Conservation Charities Working to Protect Ocean Life


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index