The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life - Hardcover

Ellis, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559639741 ISBN 13: 9781559639743

Verlag: Island Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted, and collected over the centuries, from charismatic whales and dolphins to the lowly menhaden, from sea turtles to cod, tuna, and coral.

Rich in history, anecdote, and surprising fact, Richard Ellis’s descriptions bring to life the natural history of the various species, the threats they face, and the losses they have suffered. Killing has occurred on a truly stunning scale, with extinction all too often the result, leaving a once-teeming ocean greatly depleted. But the author also finds instances of hope and resilience, of species that have begun to make remarkable comebacks when given the opportunity.

Written with passion and grace, and illustrated with Richard Ellis’s own drawings,The Empty Ocean brings to a wide audience a compelling view of the damage we have caused to life in the sea and what we can do about it. "

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Richard Ellis is the author of more than ten books, including The Book of Whales (Knopf, 1980),Monsters of the Sea (Knopf, 1994), Imagining Atlantis (Knopf, 1998),The Search for the Giant Squid (Lyons, 1998), and, most recently, Aquagenesis (Viking, 2001). A research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, he is also a celebrated artist whose works of marine life have been exhibited in museums around the world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1559639741
• ISBN 13: 9781559639743
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 367
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