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The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality
Gotham
September 2009
On Sale: August 27, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 159240474X
EAN: 9781592404742
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Seahorses lead quiet lives, tucked away out of sight on the
seafloor. It is rare to catch a glimpse of a seahorse in its
natural habitat. But even if few have seen one live, these
exotic, seemingly prehistoric creatures exist quite vividly
in our imaginations and they have mesmerized scientists,
artists, and storytellers throughout time with their
otherworldly rarity. Poseidon's Steed is a sweeping journey that takes us from
the coral reefs and seagrass meadows of Indonesia where many
seahorses makes their natural habitat to the back streets of
Hong Kong where a thriving black market seahorse trade is
concealed. Throughout history, seahorses have surfaced in
some unexpected places and Scales also follows the seahorse
back in time, from our most rudimentary seahorse imaginings
six thousand years ago on cave walls in Australia, to the
myths of ancient Greece. Scientists have long puzzled over seahorses' unusual anatomy
and their very strange sex lives. And male seahorses are the
only males in the animal world that experience childbirth!
Seahorses are not what scientists call a "keystone" species.
They rely on a healthy ocean to survive, but the marine
ecosystem does not rely on them. But their delicate beauty
reminds us that we rely on the seas not only to fill our
dinner plates, but also to feed our imaginations.
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