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A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (Paperback) Loot Price: R557
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A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (Paperback): Drew Harvell

A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (Paperback)

Drew Harvell; Foreword by Harry W. Greene

Series: Organisms and Environments, 13

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"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."-Library Journal "Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."-The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell's eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed away for decades in a storage unit. More than 150 years earlier, the Blaschkas had been captivated by marine invertebrates and spun their likenesses into glass, documenting the life of oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts. Inspired by the Blaschkas' uncanny replicas, Harvell set out in search of their living counterparts. In A Sea of Glass, she recounts this journey of a lifetime, taking readers along as she dives beneath the ocean's surface to a rarely seen world, revealing the surprising and unusual biology of some of the most ancient animals on the tree of life. On the way, we glimpse a century of change in our ocean ecosystems and learn which of the living matches for the Blaschkas' creations are, indeed, as fragile as glass. Drew Harvell and the Blaschka menagerie are the subjects of the documentary Fragile Legacy, which won the Best Short Film award at the 2015 Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit. Learn more about the film and check out the trailer here.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Organisms and Environments, 13
Release date: April 2019
First published: 2016
Authors: Drew Harvell
Foreword by: Harry W. Greene
Dimensions: 229 x 178 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30357-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Ceramic arts, pottery, glass > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Hydrobiology > Marine biology
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LSN: 0-520-30357-1
Barcode: 9780520303577

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