Offers insight into many of the extreme life forms and phenomena of the ocean, from the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecological process of a behemoth whale's death.
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"Here is a writer of power and persuasion, one worthy of the Rachel Carson mantle. Whitty allows us to peer into the ecological web of the mysterious World Ocean, sharing her passion for the continuation of the ocean's life-essential fabric."---Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson; Witness for Nature"Rhythmic, poetic, transporting, and illuminating, this is the sacred memoir of a woman among islands of miracles, yearning with all her heart to be right where she is."---Carl Safina, author of Voyage of the Turtle and Song for the Blue Ocean"An illuminating exploration of the swirling currents connecting oceans, science, people, and history, bearing the reader on a unique voyage of discovery above and below the waves."---Daniel Bennett, president of the Explorers ClubAt the center of Deep Blue Home is Julia Whitty's penetrating exploration of the World Ocean as a single body of water connected by vast three dimensional currents encircling the globe, each far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon. This undivided body of water profoundly controls and is controlled by Earth's climate; its fate determines our own.Whitty's career---first in science, later as a documentary filmmaker, and always as a writer 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," or what happens in the afterlife of a leviathan.No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to the Galapagos. In one of the book's most haunting encounters, she realizes: "I am about to learn the answer to my long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the water if a whale sounded directly alongside---would she, like a person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?"Her book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.
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