This is a book about how the ocean dispatches from a seabird biologist.
The dovekie is a stocky seabird which is the size of a child's heart that spends its winters on the coast of Newfoundland. It thrives in one of the toughest climates on earth.
The polar bear is an apex predator, designed to persevere in the Arctic's extreme conditions. The North Atlantic right whole outweighs the humpback by more than twenty tons and feeds on enormous quantities of tiny plankton in northeastern waters before migrating south for the winter.
This book, written by wildlife biologist Holly Hogan, brings to life the wonder of these creatures and many other birds, fish and marine mammals she encountered in her thirty years of ocean travel.
On these voyages, Hogan has noticed a troubling pattern: the constant presence of plastic in the form of adrift fishing gear, garbage, and micro-plastics that create an invisible but pervasive smog in our oceans and threaten even the most seemingly resilient forms of sea life.
Bringing together nature, science and adventure writing, Hogan shines a light on our plastic-addicted lifestyle, offering an eyewitness account of its devastating effects on the marine environment – and highlighting international efforts to combat it.
The book is written in lyrical prose and a reverential eye for the majesty and fragility of our natural world. This book is a clarion call to protect our global oceans and the life they sustain, including our own.
I found this book so eye-opening. It is a book that will transform our vision of what's happening in our waters. It really is a crying shame that there is so much plastic around. May we all take steps to alleviate some of our use of plastics, especially the one-time use variety.
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