ARGONAUT BOOKS

A timely and useful oceancentric natural history of the ocean-human relationship. Human understanding of the oceans, which cover much of the surface of the earth, is historically weak . . . Until recently, it was assumed that ocean resources were inexhaustible, especially the bounty of fish and marine mammals, and that garbage and chemical waste dumped into oceans would just disappear. The idea that burning fossil fuels could raise ocean temperatures was unthinkable . . . [and] bad science continued to support uncontrolled exploitation of the seas, even after the rise of the ecological movemen...Read More