| Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks: Travels of a Water-Bound Adventurer Contributor(s): Belleville, Bill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820325929 ISBN-13: 9780820325927 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2004 Annotation: Nature and travel writer Bill Belleville has inspired and informed countless readers through his books and magazine articles. "River of Lakes, praised as "erudite" "(Publishers Weekly), and "elegiac" "(Florida Today), has spurred a resurgence of interest in Florida's St. Johns River. A similar sense of wonder abounds in "Deep Cuba (Georgia), which reveals the island's diverse marine life. In these eighteen essays and articles Belleville takes us through Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America in quest of the distinctive, the wondrous, the threatened, and the undiscovered. His wanderings take him to the once prosperous, now submerged pirate city of Port Royal, Jamaica, and to an offshore Florida reef just in time for a night dive to witness the seldom-seen spawning of the coral. In the Dominican republic, Belleville dives with archaeologists in search of pre-Columbian Taino artifacts, long lost in the dark depths of a sacred cenote. In Trinidad he joins the search with native fishermen for the rare golden hammerhead shark. Whether seeking the queen conch off the islands of the Turks and Caicos or the flashlight fish in Cuba's southern waters, Belleville's purpose is always more than adventure for its own sake. Hungering for the distinct sense of a place, his curiosity compels him to learn all he can about the wild secrets of the remotest landscapes, from inland jungles to teeming island waters. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Special Interest - Adventure |
| Dewey: 910.916 |
| LCCN: 2003020881 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.9" W x 9.36" (1.13 lbs) 248 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks nature and travel writer Bill Belleville takes us through Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America in quest of the distinctive, the wondrous, the threatened, and the undiscovered. His wanderings take him to the once prosperous, now submerged pirate city of Port Royal, Jamaica, and to an offshore Florida reef just in time for a night dive to witness the seldom-seen spawning of the coral. In the Dominican Republic, Belleville dives with archaeologists in search of pre-Columbian Taino artifacts, long lost in the dark depths of a sacred cenote. In Trinidad he joins native fishermen in a search for the rare golden hammerhead shark. Whether he is seeking the queen conch off the islands of the Turks and Caicos or the flashlight fish in Cuba's southern waters, Belleville's purpose is always more than adventure for its own sake. Hungering for the distinct sense of a place, he learns all he can about the wild secrets of remote landscapes, from inland jungles to teeming island waters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Belleville, Bill: - BILL BELLEVILLE, an award-winning environmental journalist and filmmaker, is also a veteran diver. His books include River of Lakes and Deep Cuba (both Georgia). His articles, which have appeared in such publications as Sierra, Oxford American, Islands, and Salon, have been anthologized in six other collections. Belleville lives in Sanford, Florida. |