A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures - Couverture rigide

Morris, Alix

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ISBN 10 : 1785127624 ISBN 13 : 9781785127625

Editeur : Bonnier Books Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

'A tantalising glimpse of nature's capacity to heal' -- The Times
'Eye-opening' -- Daily Mail
'Splendid, warm, and exhaustively researched' -- Sy Montgomery author of The Soul of an Octopus
'Full of heart, zest, and honesty' -- Chantal Lyons, author of Groundbreakers


For readers of Jennifer Ackerman and Ed Yong, environmental journalist Alix Morris recounts the year she spent following seals, investigating their fascinating behaviour, the effects of their extraordinary return from near extinction, and how we can try to bring nature back into balance.

It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as the subject of decades of study. Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems, and the changing climate.

Along with the enigmatic seals themselves, Morris gets to know all of the competing interests in the intense debate about the newly recovered seal populations in our coastal waters, from local fisherman whose catch is often diminished by savvy seals, to tribes who once relied on seal-hunting for food, clothing, and medicine, to seal rescue workers and biologists, to surfers and swimmers now encountering seal-hunting sharks in coastal waters.

In a world where wildlife populations are disappearing at an alarming rate, A Year with the Seals is a rare look at what happens when conservation efforts actually work, and how human tampering with ecosystems continues to have unexpected consequences for a wide variety of species, humans included.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alix Morris is a science writer in midcoast Maine. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Down East Magazine, and elsewhere, and she has graduate degrees in science writing from MIT and global health from Johns Hopkins. Her first book, A Year with the Seals, is supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bonnier Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785127624
• ISBN 13: 9781785127625
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible