Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir - Rilegato

Roberts, Callum

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ISBN 10: 1788162153 ISBN 13: 9781788162159

Casa editrice: Profile Books Ltd, 2019

Riassunto

Reef Life is a marine science memoir - the story of how Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love with coral reefs. Callum Roberts begins as a young university student who had never been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. From the moment he first cleared his goggles, he's never looked back, moving on to survey Sharm al-Sheikh, and from there diving and researching all over the world, including the Australia's imperilled Great Barrier Reef and the more resilient reefs of the Caribbean, in a thirty-year career. His stories are astonishing, lyrical and laced with a wonderful wry humour - and they allow us privileged access to, and understanding of, the science of our oceans and reefs. Reading this book will also commit readers to support of Callum's goal to get marine reserve status for ten percent of the world's ocean.

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Recensione:

Part odyssey, part 'Reef Ecology 101', Roberts' witty and vivid descriptions of the underwater world are meshed with the most up-to-date findings, which suggest that "reefs cannot be climate-proofed and they can't hide from climate change" (Boris Worm Nature)

Reef Life is a vibrant memoir of the joys, as well as the grind, of a research career beginning in the 1980s that has spanned a golden age of coral reef science. It is also a fine introduction to the ecology of reefs and the existential threats they now face. (Caspar Henderson The Guardian 2019-11-16)

Compulsory reading for scuba divers and armchair divers alike (BBC Wildlife)

Praise for Ocean of Life:
'Roberts is that precious pearl: a practising scientist who not only knows his field inside out, but also understands how to write compelling, persuasive non-fiction ... he has trawled and plundered these experiences to craft the nearest thing we are ever likely to get to an all-encompassing manifesto for sustainable marine management'

(Leo Hickman Guardian)

I know of no other volume that treats such divergent ocean issues with this much accuracy and acumen ... At the heart of this book is a deep love of the ocean and a profound concern for its viability as a resource for us all. (Stephen Palumbi Nature)

Descrizione del libro:

A life working on coral reefs by Britain's foremost marine scientist and pioneering conservationist

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• Editore: Profile Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1788162153
• ISBN 13: 9781788162159
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368