The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Safina, Carl
ISBN 10: 0805090401 ISBN 13: 9780805090406
Verlag: Henry Holt and Co., 2011
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An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina'sThe 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.
Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:
Carl Safina, PH.D., has studied the ocean as a scientist, stood for it as an advocate, and conveyed his travels among sea creatures and fishing people in lyrical nonfiction writing. His first book, Song for the Blue Ocean, was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction selection, and a Library Journal Best Science Book selection; it won the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction and a MacArthur genius prize. Dr. Safina's second book, Eye of the Albatross, won the John Burroughs Medal for the year's best book about the natural world and was chosen by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine as the Year's Best Book for Communicating Science. His Voyage of the Turtle was a New York Times Editors' Choice. For The View from Lazy Point, Safina was awarded a special Guggenheim Fellowship.
Carl Safina, author of The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World,Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival,Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas, and founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, was named by the Audubon Society one of the leading conservationists of the twentieth century. He's been profiled byThe New York Times, and PBS's Bill Moyers. His books and articles have won him a Pew Fellowship, Guggenheim Award, Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. He lives in Amagansett, New York.
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Titel: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in ...
Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
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