The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Published on 29. September 2009
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-4262-0541-5 (ISBN)
Description
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4262-0541-5 (9781426205415)
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Sylvia A. Earle is a former NOAA chief scientist. She has led more than 60 expeditions as an oceanographer and explorer, authored 170 publications, and lectured in 70 countries. Among many other books to her credit, she is the author of Ocean- An Illustrated Atlas, with Linda K. Glover.