Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
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Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth. Publishers Weekly The late Cousteau (1910-1997) is still offering remarkable tales of nature and the sea alongside coauthor Schiefelbein. Stephen Hoye delivers a solid reading complete with an astounding Cousteau impersonation that will have listeners questioning just who they are listening to during the introduction. Hoye transports the audience around the globe and under the sea, capturing the tense incidents throughout the tale in a believable manner. Though most of the tale is told from Schiefelbein's perspective, Hoye manages to capture the spirit of Cousteau without always resorting to the impersonation. His reading is underplayed and all the more realistic because of it. As Cousteau would have demanded, the conservation information included becomes the star of the show, and the story is a medium to spread the word about Mother Earth. A Bloomsbury hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 6, 2007). (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Foreword Bill McKibben ixIntroduction Susan Schiefelbein 1The Drive to Explore 27Personal Risk 45Public Risk 80Irreplaceable Water, Irreplaceable Air 106The Holy Scriptures and the Environment 116Saccage 130Catch as Catch Can 146Science and Human Values 178The Hot Peace: Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy 205Life in a Billion Years 263The Miracle of Life: The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus 276Epilogue: An Update Since the Writing of This Book 293Selected Bibliography 303
