The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World

by Rowan Jacobsen

Book Overview

Modeled on John Steinbeck's The Sea of Cortez , a slim, beautiful volume containing a goodnews environmental story about how an oyster could help restore our oceans. In the 1990s, a marine scientist... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596916842
• ISBN13: 9781596916845
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Old Oly

Olympia Oysters. They were once abundant like many other that went off the face of the earth. In this book, you will know how the see-saw tipped. The first chapter of Brian Kingzett's survey of British Columbia coastline at the rate of 12 beaches per four-hours of low tide is an adventure even in concept. There are interesting facts to know about food chains of (human)-otters-sea urchins-kelp from the journeys of Brian Kingzett and the author. If you see one too many of a kind, you can tell who is not on duty. The Chesapeake scene is reviewed in terms of the failure of oyster population restoration. Just like people volunteering for rearing dogs for blind, there are people who raise oyster gardens. In the subsequent chapters, the author moves on to raincoast dwellers and their fish traps and clam gardens. Then you are taken to Clovis times. Thats 13 thousands of years ago. Its hard to imagine that ancient humans have crossed miles of ocean, but really then the ocean was hundred of feet less deep. Next a chapter on all the good in oysters needed for human brain development. Role of iodine in IQ. Moken sea nomads Geomorphology