Ocean Country
One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the Seas
Published on 8. September 2015
376 pages
978-1-58394-961-0 (ISBN)
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Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz Cunningham crisscrosses the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our dazzling but endangered oceans. This intimate account charts her thrilling journey through unexpected encounters with conservationists, fishermen, sea nomads, and scientists in the Mediterranean, Sulawesi, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Papua, New Guinea.
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09/2015
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LIZ CUNNINGHAM is the author of Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age (Praeger), which features frank and probing oral-history interviews with top television journalists such as Tom Brokaw, Larry King, and Robin MacNeil. She has written for Earth Island Journal, East Bay Express, the Marin Poetry Center Anthology, The Outward Bound International Journal, Times of the Islands, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has collaborated with institutions such as the Academy for Educational Development, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. She also serves on the board of Outward Bound Peacebuilding and holds a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- Bonus Minutes
- Part 1. The Turks and Caicos Islands
- 1. Beauty
- 2. A Body within a Body
- 3. Water Garden
- 4. The Truths of the Islands
- Part 2. The California Coast
- 5. Second Thoughts
- 6. Home
- 7. The Longing
- 8. The Family Tree
- Part 3. The Coral Triangle
- 9. Divestiture
- 10. Heart
- 11. The River
- 12. Blue Stop
- 13. It's Time
- 14. Ular Laut
- Part 4. The Mediterranean
- 15. The Island
- 16. Plus Signs
- 17. The Ring in the Fish
- 18. La Semilla
- 19. Thousands of Selves
- Part 5. The Silver Bank
- 20. Song
- Epilogue
- Resources
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
