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Author: Alanna Mitchell
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780226532639
ISBN 10: 0226532631
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 02 January 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Seasick is a travelog of sorts in which Mitchell takes her readers around the world to investigate the signs and causes of an unhealthy ocean...For many of us, the stories told in this book will not be new. But those stories are well worth listening to agaig, if only to remind ourselves to ask and be able to answer the question, 'So what?' --Kiho Kim, Oceanography --Oceanography Kiho Kim Mitchell is a writer at ease explaining scientific fact and research, and at the same time writing lush evocations of great beauty on her travels around the world, as well as describing fear, insecurity and tragedy. --James Murray-White Green Prophet Mitchell trawls the oxygen-depleted oceanic dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, counts the days after the full moon in Panama to figure out when to search for signs of coral spawn, questions what a souring ocean chemistry holds for the future of marine plankton communities, and recounts the actions that have depleted global fisheries, documenting the toll that one frightening assault after another has taken on our ocean....Faced with the myriad ways humans are changing the ocean, Mitchell admits that giving in to despair would be easy. Instead, she chooses a personal voyage of discovery in an effort to get to the bottom of things--in some instances literally....I found the argument for hope and change that she presents compelling./i>--Rick MacPherson American Scientist (03/01/2010) Seasick is a travelog of sorts in which Mitchell takes her readers around the world to investigate the signs and causes of an unhealthy ocean...For many of us, the stories told in this book will not be new. But those stories are well worth listening to agaig, if only to remind ourselves to ask and be able to answer the question, 'So what?' -Kiho Kim, Oceanography --Oceanography Kiho Kim
Mitchell is a writer at ease explaining scientific fact and research, and at the same time writing lush evocations of great beauty on her travels around the world, as well as describing fear, insecurity and tragedy. --James Murray-White Green Prophet
Author Information
Alanna Mitchell spent fourteen years as a writer covering science and the environment at the Globe and Mail. She is the author of Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots, also published by the University of Chicago Press. In 2010, Mitchell received the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment for Seasick. She is the first book author to win the Grantham Prize, and the first Canadian.
