Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures - Hardcover

Giaimo, Cara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683695070 ISBN 13: 9781683695073

Verlag: Quirk Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer affirmations for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment—drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world.

Feeling stressed, stuck, or simply tired of life on land? Take some advice from creatures who never left the ocean in the first place.

If you sometimes wish you could sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news: The strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with open arms (and fins, claws, and tentacles). But if you're not quite ready to take to the sea, these friendly denizens of the deep offer solid, often hilarious advice for living on dry land. Learn about a gloomy octopus that enforces its boundaries by throwing debris at unwelcome neighbors, a star tunicate that digests much of its own body, an anglerfish that takes romantic attachment to extraordinary extremes, and dozens other wonderfully weird inhabitants of the deep.

Beautifully illustrated with striking watercolor portraits of the ocean's most eccentric creatures, Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake is a charming blend of nature, science, humor, and unconventional life advice made for ocean lovers, science nerds, stressed-out humans, and anyone who suspects the sea creatures may have figured out life better than we have. It will make you long to return to the seas – but it will also help you bring a freewheeling, relaxed, self-actualized ocean spirit to even the driest life.

• Meet 60 undersea oddballs: blobfish, anglerfish, mantis shrimp, immortal jellyfish, octopuses, bizarre deep-sea animals, and dozens of other creatures
• Discover strange-but-true animal facts from the sunlight zone all the way down to the abyss
• Find funny life advice about confidence, boundaries, resilience, relationships, self-acceptance, and more inspired by how ocean creatures actually live
• Full-color watercolor portraits capture the wonderfully strange personalities of 60 marine animals
• A funny, informative gift for marine-life fans, science nerds, weird-nature enthusiasts, and anyone who needs some unconventional encouragement

Dive in, meet 60 of the ocean's weirdest residents, and discover what their bizarre lives might teach you about surviving your own.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cara Giaimo is a science journalist who loves writing about our fellow species. You can find her work in the New York Times, Atlas Obscura, The Plant, and elsewhere. Cara lives in Somerville, MA, above sea level.

Vlad Stankovic is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Sydney, Australia.

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Sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer affirmations for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment—drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world.

If you sometimes wish you could sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news—the strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with open arms (and fins, claws, and tentacles). But if you’re not quite ready to take to the sea, these friendly denizens of the deep offer solid advice for living on dry land, such as the following:

• “If you’re happy and you know it, digest your brain.”—The star tunicate, who avoids anxiety by digesting much of its own body
  
• “Never be afraid to set—and enforce—your boundaries.”—The gloomy octopus, who protects its personal space by throwing dirt at anyone who bothers it
  
• “It’s good to get it all out.”—The fire-breathing shrimp, who vomits bioluminescent goo when threatened
  
• “If you love someone, absorb them into your bloodstream.”—The fanfin anglerfish, who expresses love by fusing with its mate
  
• And more wonderfully wacky undersea weirdos who really know how to live!
  

Beautifully illustrated with striking watercolor portraits of the ocean’s most eccentric creatures, Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake will make you long to return to the seas—but it will also help you bring a freewheeling, relaxed, self-actualized ocean spirit to even the driest life.

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Introduction

Hey! No—over here in the water. It’s us, the friendly creatures of the sea. You’ve sent us so many messages over the years, although we’re not sure we understand the really oily ones. We think they might be cries for help? So we’ve been putting our heads, front segments, decentralized neurons, etc., together, and now we have a message for you.

Just to recap: For some reason, a little while ago, a few of you decided to leave your perfectly good ocean habitat and go do land stuff. You started walking, talking, and inventing commerce, and the rest is apparently something called history.

Of course we respect your choice! We’re just a little concerned, that’s all. Most of what we hear (and smell and absorb) from your realm is pretty gnarly. (What are “student loans”???) Meanwhile, we’ve also been evolving up a storm, and not to brag, but we’re pretty sure we did it right. So we wanted you to know that if you’re ever inspired to sink back into the sea’s watery depths, we’re here to welcome you with open tentacles and gaping mouths.

But if you insist on sticking to the land, maybe we can give you a little advice? It’s never too late to change how you do things, even if you have legs now.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Quirk Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1683695070
• ISBN 13: 9781683695073
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Stankovic Vlad
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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