Telling Our Way to the Sea A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez |
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Author:
| Hirsh, Aaron |
Read by:
| Abano, Aaron |
ISBN: | 978-1-5226-6550-2 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
Publisher: | Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
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Imprint: | Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio |
Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience.
By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature--and with one another. When the biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny, along with their friend Graham Burnett, a historian of science, lead twelve college students to a remote fishing...
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A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience.
By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature--and with one another. When the biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny, along with their friend Graham Burnett, a historian of science, lead twelve college students to a remote fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, they come upon a bay of dazzling beauty and richness. But as the group pursues various threads of investigation--ecological and evolutionary studies of the sea, the desert, and their various species of animals and plants; the stories of local villagers; the journals of conquistadors and explorers--they recognize that the bay, spectacular and pristine though it seems, is but a ghost of what it once was. Life in the Sea of Cortez, they realize, has been reshaped by complex human ideas and decisions--the laws and economics of fishing, property, and water; the dreams of developers and the fantasies of tourists seeking the wild; even efforts to retrieve species from the brink of extinction--all of which have caused dramatic upheavals in the ecosystem. It is a painful realization, but the students discover a way forward. After weathering a hurricane and encountering a rare whale in its wake, they come to see that the bay's best chance of recovery may in fact reside in our own human stories, which can weave a compelling memory of the place. Glimpsing the intricate and ever-shifting web of human connections with the Sea of Cortez, the students comprehend anew their own place in the natural world--suspended between past and future, teetering between abundance and loss.
The accompanying reference guide is included as a PDF on this disc.