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The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World
Modeled on John Steinbeck’s The Sea of Cortez, a slim, beautiful volume containing a goodnews environmental story about how an oyster could help restore our oceans.
In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada’s western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Al...more
In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada’s western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Al...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by Bloomsbury USA
(first published July 1st 2009)
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Science textbooks need to be written with the color and engagement of Rowan Jacobsen’s The Living Shore — a brief chronicle of a marine expedition along the coast of British Columbia in search of the nearly extinct Olympia oyster.
The Living Shore is a well-crafted account of passionate research into shellfish aquaculture and its role in not only the preservation, but restoration of species.
If this a food book? Not exactly, but any oyster or shellfish lover will appreciate the close-to-nature sto...more
The Living Shore is a well-crafted account of passionate research into shellfish aquaculture and its role in not only the preservation, but restoration of species.
If this a food book? Not exactly, but any oyster or shellfish lover will appreciate the close-to-nature sto...more
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Jonathan Kleefeld
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I'm a sucker for compact books that expertly dollop a subject on my brain. Never mind that this particular book presses a good deal of my personal excitement buttons: Oysters themselves, historical ecology, food writing, the Pacific Northwest. The final anthropological/bio-neurological chapters are especially fascinating and expansive to the book's mission. The overall execution here is superb. Jacobsen is fast becoming a favorite for his angle and style.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this slender volume. It's got adventure, prehistory, First Nations, and more, all wrapped around the delicious oyster. Absolutely fascinating and at the same time sobering. There's so much that we thought we knew that was wrong regarding how the coasts were settled that this volume refutes, and there's so much left to learn. Highly recommended for Left Coasters.
this natural history of the oyster, the oly, is really good, and author has nice chapter on pre-historic human development and migrations, and some other examples of shore restoration, in Chesapeake (pretty much over there unfortunately, till we stop polluting), and gulf coast, besides concentrating on Puget sound and Vancouver is. bc. everybody should read this just to get the news.
This was such a great book, I can't wait for Violet and my dh to read it next. Loved it!!
H/T: This blog post from Lissa: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bonnyg...
H/T: This blog post from Lissa: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bonnyg...
A little gem on the natural history of Olympia oysters in the Pacific Northwest. A quick, interesting read.
As he says in the Acknowledgments, this is a "nice, little book". Made me miss the Pacific Northwest.
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Brief, educational, delightful and all about nature.
Well written and interesting!
A great book and extremely interesting as a British Columbian to learn more about the history of this area. It makes me want to take long walks on the beach, eat oysters, and donate money to reconstruct the ecosystems of our intertidal zones.
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Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America, Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, and The Living Shore, about our ancient connection to estuaries and their potential to heal the oceans. He has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s, Outside, Eatin...more
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