OCEAN'S END

TRAVELS THROUGH ENDANGERED SEAS

by Colin Woodard Foreword by Paul Ehrlich

Published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group - 2000

300 pages

h/c with d/j - approx 24cm x 16cm - no inscriptions - no photographs

from d/j:

...OCEAN'S END is a stirring eyewitness account of the state of the world's oceans and a landmark call to action. After a year and a half spent criss-crossing the world's seas, Colin Woodard tells a fascinating tale of the fishermen and scientists, officials and activists, divers and sailors, religious missionaries and government ministers whose daily lives are spent confronting the ocean's problems.

He tells the story of:

• The residents of former resort towns who must cope with the astonishing death of the Black Sea
• The destruction of Grand Banks cod fishery, and with the basis of Newfoundland society
• Scientists trying to understand and stop the decline of Belize's spectacular coral reefs
• How reengineering for flood control turned the Mississippi River into a toxic gumbo that creates huge "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico
• The people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, who face the complete submersion of their country by rising sea levels
• Antarctic scientists who witnesses the calving of a piece of ice shelf the size of Rhode Island, due to global warming

" A fascinating odyssey of revelation about imperiled seas, and trenchant required reading for any citizen of the Ocean Planet" (Thomas E Lovejoy, Counselor to the Secretary, Smithsonian Institution)

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