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A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (Paperback)
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A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (Paperback)
Series: Organisms and Environments, 13
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List price R630
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Discovery Miles 5 570
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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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