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Where Corals Lie - A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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Where Corals Lie - A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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For millennia corals were a marine enigma confounding
classification and occupying a space between the animal and
vegetable kingdoms. Ultimately their animal and symbiotic natures
were recognized, and they remain the focus of intense fascination
and research. The danger to seafarers posed by unseen underwater
coral reefs led to their association with death and interment that
has figured in literature, poetry, music and film. The bright
redness of precious Mediterranean coral was associated with blood,
including coral's gory origin in European and Indian mythology, and
its place in religion. Corals have long been prized as jewellery
and ornament, and were a feature of many Kunstkammer collections
during the Renaissance. Seen as `rainforests of the sea', coral
reefs have become greenly emblematic of fragile marine
biodiversity, warning of human-driven global climate change. This
book uniquely treats the many manifestations of corals in biology
and geology; how diverse corals came to figure in art,
expeditionary accounts, medicine, folklore, geopolitics, and
international trade; and corals as builders of islands and
protectors of coastlines, and as building materials themselves.
Exceptionally illustrated with a wide range of natural history
images, underwater photographs and fine art, this book provides a
unique resource for all interested in ocean environments and the
cultures that have flourished there.
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