"A clarion call of a read, explore the unknown deep ocean waters, discover fascinating history, observe our effect on our environment, and reach for hope in our future."
A clarion call of a read, explore the unknown in deep ocean waters, discover fascinating history, observe our effect on our environment, and reach for hope in our future. This is a book that offers much, and should find a space in every library, on every home bookshelf. Award-winning author James Bradley makes it very clear that oceans are at the centre of life on our planet, including human life. The oceans act as both magnet and barrier to the humans who live around and on it, and we need attempt to understand our relationship in order to understand our effect on the world as a whole. We are at the stage where scientists do not know how to reverse some of the catastrophic results of human interference, can we learn our lessons, can we yet make a difference? The fabulous Robert Macfarlane declares Deep Water as a major achievement: “Bradley’s skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate, and urgent book…”. Scanning the wide ranging chapter titles gives a clue as to the depth and scope, from migrations to echo, net to cargo, beaches to deep, you begin to get some idea of what is to come. I read with eyes open wide, I was fascinated and felt connected, startled and in shock, but also energised and hopeful. This is a book that feels as though it is for everyone, it’s inclusive and welcoming even as it plunges deeply into the environmental emergency we have created. There was no option other than to add this to our LoveReading Star Books collection, and I’ve also chosen it as a Liz Pick of the Month. So eloquent and beautiful, Deep Water acts as a beacon of warning while shining a bright light of hope on our underwater world.
A Bookseller Nonfiction Editor’s Choice for March 2024
Plunge into the depths of the unknown in this thrilling work of nonfiction that combines science, history, and nature writing to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world.
Oceans created, shaped, and sustain not just human life, but all life on Earth, and perhaps beyond it. They are our history ? from evolution to exploration and colonialism; our present ? from beach holidays to transporting food and goods; and, as rising sea levels and warming water reshape coastlines and the climate, our future.
Deep Water is a reckoning with humankind’s complex relationship with the ocean, a book shaped by tidal movements and vast currents, and lit by the presence of other minds and other ways of being. It speaks directly and uncompromisingly of the urgency of the environmental catastrophe that is overtaking us, but is also suffused with the glories of the ocean, and alert to the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers whose work helps us understand its secrets. Immense in scope but also profoundly personal, it offers vital new ways of understanding humanity’s place on our planet, and shows that the oceans might yet save us all.
Deep Water features in the following genres: Nature and the natural world: general interest, Recommendations, History, Popular Science, Oceanography (seas and oceans), The Earth: natural history: general interest, General and world history, Conservation of the environment, Maritime history, Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest, Marine biology, Oceans and seas, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Environmental monitoring, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, History and Archaeology, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Earth sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning, The environment, History: specific events and topics, Wildlife: general interest, Hydrobiology, Biology, life sciences, Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc, Place qualifiers, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes, Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Star Books
Deep Water is available in Paperback, Hardback
Deep Water was written by James Bradley and published by Scribe UK an imprint of Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Deep Water has 464 pages
£11.69
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