Deep blue home : an intimate ecology of our wild ocean

Summary: Provides armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home. At the center of this penetrating exploration of the ocean and the creatures dependent on it is Julia Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race. Whitty's 30-year career as a documentary filmmaker 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" (what happens upon the death of a behemoth). No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780618119813
ISBN: 0618119817
Physical Description: print
246 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246).

Formatted Contents Note:

Isla Rasa. The very air miraculous ; The river that was nowhere and everywhere ; Another heaven ; Hunger Island ; The ornament of the body ; One hundred days of solitude ; Whorls ; The unreefed world ; The epitome of unrestrained freedom ; Mirage ; Emotional ecology ; The anti-bodies of quiet ; Everything is already brilliant -- The underwater rivers of the world. The distant geography of water ; The ecumenical sea ; Deepwater formation ; The tempest from the eagle's wings ; One meritorious act ; Jump cut ; Lament for the thirty million ; All time is now ; Trophic cascade ; Bone rafters ; Soundsabers ; Salting down the lean missionary ; The existence of a world previous to ours ; Reading God ; Nemesis ; The inexplicable waves ; At the end of hunger -- The airborne ocean. Serpent Cave ; Black mirror.