Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of our Wild Ocean [Audiobook] download free by Julia Whitty
- Listen audiobook: Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of our Wild Ocean
- Author: Julia Whitty
- Release date: 2011/6/16
- Publisher: CENGAGE LEARNING, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780547520339
- Rating: 7.56 of 10
- Votes: 690
- Review by: Mike Garvey
- Review rating: 9.36 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/9
- Duration: 3H5M55S in 256 kbps (49.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, OGG, MP3, MPEG4, WAV, AC3, WMA (compression JAR, ARJ, ZIP, CPIO, RAR, TBZ2)
- Total pages original book: 246
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M18S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: At the center of Deep Blue Home-a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it-is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race. Whitty's thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of 'extremophile' life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of 'whale falls' (what happens upon the death of a behemoth). No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica. In the Galapagos, in one of the book's most haunting encounters, she realizes: 'I am about to learn the answer to my long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the water if a whale sounded directly alongside-would she, like a person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?' This book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Oceanography (seas), Earth: Natural History General, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology, Travel Writing
- Download servers: MEGA, 4Shared, Dropbox, Torrent, Hotfile, EliteTorrent, Racaty, MegaCloud, BitShare, Mediafire. Compressed in JAR, ARJ, ZIP, CPIO, RAR, TBZ2
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.87 USD
- Dimensions: 135x204x17mm
- Weight: 245g
- Printed by: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
- Published in: Boston, United States
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