The Sea Around Us
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-090676-4 (ISBN)
both the National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal. The Sea Around Us remains as fresh today as when it first appeared over six decades ago. Carson's genius for evoking the power and
primacy of the world's bodies of water, combining the cosmic and the intimate, remains almost unmatched: the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans; giant squids battling sperm whales hundreds of fathoms below the surface; the power of the tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in one bay alone; the seismic waves known as tsunamis that periodically remind us of the oceans' overwhelmingly destructive power. The
seas sustain human life and imperil it. Today, with the oceans endangered by the dumping of medical waste and ecological disasters such as the Exxon oil spill in Alaska, the gradual death of the Great
Barrier Reef, and the melting of the polar ice caps, Carson's book provides a timely reminder of both the fragility and the centrality of the ocean and the life that abounds within it. Anyone who loves the sea, or who is concerned about our natural environment, will want to read, or re-read, this classic work.
The late Rachel Carson was for many years a marine biologist and then editor-in-chief of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She was also the author of Silent Spring, Under the Sea-Wind, and At the Edge of the Sea. Sylvia Earle is a marine biologist, oceanographer, and National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence. Her books include Blue Hope: Exploring and Caring for Earth's Magnificent Ocean and Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas.
Introduction
I: Mother Sea
1. The Gray Beginnings
2. The Pattern of the Surface
3. The Changing Year
4. The Sunless Sea
5. Hidden Lands
6. The Long Snowfall
7. The Birth of an Island
8. The Shape of Ancient Seas
II: The Restless Sea
9. Wind and Water
10. Wind, Sun, and the Spinning of the Earth
11. The Moving Tides
III. Man and the Sea about Him
12. The Global Thermostat
13. Wealth from the Salt Seas
14. The Encircling Sea
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-090676-6 / 0190906766 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-090676-4 / 9780190906764 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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