The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves Contributor(s): Kunzig, Robert (Author) |
|
![]() |
ISBN: 0393045625 ISBN-13: 9780393045628 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1999 Annotation: A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. Line drawings. Maps. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Oceans & Seas |
Dewey: 551.46 |
LCCN: 98-38704 |
Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.33" W x 9.28" (1.51 lbs) 354 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier, and yet it seems so familiar that we sometimes forget how little we know about it. Just as we are poised on the verge of exploiting the sea on an unprecedented scale-mining it, fertilizing it, fishing it out-this book reminds us of how much we have yet to learn. More than that, it chronicles the knowledge explosion that has transformed our view of the sea in just the past few decades, and made it a far more interesting and accessible place. From the Big Bang to that far-off future time, two billion years from now, when our planet will be a waterless rock; from the lush crowds of life at seafloor hot springs to the invisible, jewel-like plants that float at the sea surface; from the restless shifting of the tectonic plates to the majestic sweep of the ocean currents, Kunzig's clear and lyrical prose transports us to the ends of the Earth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kunzig, Robert: - Robert Kunzig is European editor of Discover magazine, based in Dijon, France. His writing about the ocean has won the AAAS-Westinghouse Science Journalism Award and the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. |