![]() Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play. Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time. We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last 20 years we have transformed the oceans beyond recognition. Callum Roberts uses his lifetimes experience working with the oceans to take us on a panoramic tour beneath the seas, exploring the richness of life in the. ![]() In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. In this powerful and ambitious book a pathbreaking marine conservation biologist Callum Roberts tells the story of man and the sea, from the earliest traces. ![]() Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" ( New York Times) ![]()
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