Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage

by Deborah Cramer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $20.32

  In the course of an ocean voyage, Deborah Cramer documents the history and science of the Atlantic illuminating our multifaceted reliance on the sea, our betrayal of that bond, the changing landscape of the ocean floor and the threatened life of its inhabitants. Bringing together the research of physical oceanographers, geologists, biologists and chemists from both sides of the Atlantic, Cramer presents a report of the damage inflicted on these waters. From the decks of her boat she describes the intricate and fragile web of marine life, the disappearance of schools of fish plundered by the fishing industry and the changing rhythms of the Atlantic from the rough, chilly Gulf of Maine to the calm, weedy currents of the Sargasso Sea to the intense blue of the Gulf Stream.