Smithsonian Ocean
Our Water, Our World
New York : Smithsonian Books in association with HarperCollins, 2008.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 295 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
The author of Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage identifies a living partnership between the earth and its life, explaining the comparatively new responsibility of human beings in protecting the sea in order to safeguard climate and environmental interests.
Contents:
BEGINNINGS. Eden in the depths -- First land, first sea -- TOUCHED BY THE SEA. Building the basin -- Breathing -- Circle of water -- Explosion of life -- A green sea -- Arrival of fishes -- Climate from the sea -- Mass extinction -- The Anthropocene -- TOUCHING THE SEA. The long migration -- Edge of continents -- Rhythms on a reef -- Far ends of the earth -- Where rivers meet the sea -- Our water, our world -- Timeline.
ISBN:
9780061343834 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Ecology Water Cra | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [280]-290) and index.