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View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World - Softcover

Safina, Carl

 
9781250002716: View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1250002710 ISBN 13: 9781250002716
Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Orion Book Award Winner

An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur Genius and bestselling author Carl Safina.

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carl Safina's work has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University.

Safina is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com.

Carl's books include Voyage of the Turtle, Becoming Wild, and The View from Lazy Point.

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Verlag
St. Martins Press-3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1250002710
ISBN 13 
9781250002716
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
418
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Henry Holt
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