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Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness
Sierra Club Books
May 2006
333 pages
ISBN: 1578051576
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Non-Fiction
In this compelling book, which Bill McKibben calls "the most
comprehensive account available of the state of our nation's
oceans, and the best reporting on how they got that way,"
veteran journalist David Helvarg fuses his passion for the
sea and his reportorial savvy into a panoramic chronicle of
America's maritime history and the challenges that our
coastal and marine environments face today. He dives deep
into the cultures of those who know the sea in myriad
ways--fisherfolk, oil-rig roughnecks, hurricane forecasters,
coastal developers, navy personnel, scientists, and
surfers--and profiles the growing efforts by coastal
citizens and local governments to restore and protect the
health of our oceans in the face of wide-open development
along our coasts and offshore. Demonstrating how national
policymaking on the oceans is enmeshed in a welter of
competing jurisdictions, he argues for strong omnibus
legislation and the creation of truly protected marine
wilderness reserves.
Superbly researched, urgently written, and thoroughly
updated, Blue Frontier is engrossing and essential
reading for anyone concerned about saving America's ocean
wilderness.
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