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An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
by Julia Whitty
At the center of Deep Blue Home - a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it - is Whitty’s description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It’s a watery force connected to the earth’s climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race.
Whitty’s thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of "extremophile" life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of "whale falls" (what happens upon the death of a behemoth).
No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica.
"Mingling mythology with science, Whitty pulls readers into the watery depths of the oceans." - Publishers Weekly
"Lovers of both terrestrial and marine nature and readers ... will be inspired to use their powers of observation to appreciate the natural environment." - Library Journal
"A lovely, soft-spoken book about the 'joy, inspiration, wonder, laughter, ideas' that come from relating to Earth's 'nonhuman world.'" - Kirkus Reviews
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Julia Whitty's first book on oceans, The Fragile Edge, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal Award, the PEN USA Award, and the Kiriyama Prize. Her cover articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine and Mother Jones, where she is an environmental correspondent and blogger at Blue Marble.
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