Saved By the Sea: A Love Story with Fish
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312567065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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RAL said Great, thought provoking and touching read. David Helvarg has a wonderful, easy to read style that is both heartfelt and humorous. Slightly irreverent and earnest without preaching, his travels and life take you from North Pole to South and to wonderful wet places in between. You will want to visit them all. You will want to save them all. Saved By the Sea is a love story, adventure and biography of an environmental warrior dedicated to reminding us to treasure and preserve beautiful things.. David Finkelstein said The Ocean Is In Our Blood, In More Senses Than One. The recent (and still ongoing) Gulf of Mexico massacre, only the latest in a long litany of catastrophes resulting from our species' excessive exploitation of, and heedless indifference to, our own one-and-only planetary habitat, brings home to us yet again what most readers undoubtedly know all too well from personal experience: that our oceans are in great peril and our marine resources are in great jeopardy. Still, we may not be fully cognizant of just how bad the situation really is, nor how, regardless of our political leanings, as a community of the co. Excellent book! I love David Helvarg's books, and this latest one is great too. This book is full of stories I will always remember. It is well-written, entertaining, touching and informative.
Saved by the Sea is the story of this longtime journalist's personal love, loss, and redemption in the free-flowing heart of our blue-marble planet. This eloquent and honestly told tale of the changes in one man's journey and the world's ocean over the last half-century is also a profound, startling, and sometimes surprisingly funny reflection on the state of our seas and the intimate ways in which our lives are all linked to the natural world around us. Saved by the Sea will bring salt water to your eyes and small waves of hope to your heart.. From bodysurfing in Central American war zones, diving barrier reefs with his tragically fated love, Nancy, or being bumped by a whale off Antarctica, David Helvarg has lived a life often as endangered as the ocean he now works to protect
And an important one."--San Francisco Chronicle“Ever since the publication of his wave-making book Blue Frontier in 2001, David Helvarg has become the premier chronicler of America’s complex relationship with our oceans and coasts, our last frontierIn his new book, Saved by the Sea: A Love Story with Fish, Helvarg adds a new and moving dimension to his work by exploring his own personal relationships with the ocean and the three main women in his life: his mother, girlfriend, and sister.”--Honolulu Weekly“There’s something special about writers who think deeply over decades about the ocean. In their memoirs, they seem to have globe-trotting lives, unhampered by ordinary boundaries and borders.”--LA Times“This is a heartfelt tribute to the sea’s power and importance in our lives in addition