The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World - Couverture rigide

Safina, Carl

 
9780805090406: The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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ISBN 10 : 0805090401 ISBN 13 : 9780805090406
Editeur : Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's "The View from Lazy Point" takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free. 'Each time science tightens a coil in the slack of our understanding', Safina writes, 'it elaborates its fundamental discovery: connection'. He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, wellbeing, and our prospects for peace. In Safina's hands, nature's continuous renewal points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina s The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free. Each time science tightens a coil in the slack of our understanding, Safina writes, it elaborates its fundamental discovery: connection. He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace. In Safina s hands, nature s continuous renewal points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.

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Éditeur
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0805090401
ISBN 13 
9780805090406
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781250002716: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1250002710 ISBN 13 :  9781250002716
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2012
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