Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader.\ \ The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier, and yet it seems so...
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A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. KLIATT Kunzig, the European editor of Discover magazine, has written a comprehensive and fascinating book about ocean science that will appeal to true science fans—especially those who are drawn to the mysteries of Earth's final frontier. Kunzig has a gifted storyteller's flair for capturing vivid images in lyric prose ("Imagine you looked out your window one morning and saw jellyfish," he begins). That is a good thing, for he covers a wealth of material that might otherwise overwhelm even dedicated ocean-loving readers. Do you want information about abyssal storms, bristle worms, epibenthic sleds, fracture zones and ocean dispersal of larvae? Would you like to know more about the big names in oceanography and hear some true-life stories about how they go about their work? Would you like to see pictures of five-foot tube worms and the thermohaline circulation of the ocean and an edible bologna sandwich that survived underwater for 10 months in a sunken submersible? That and much more are all within these 345 pages. While his focus is on oceanography, Kunzig makes an eloquent case against the over fishing and release of pollutants that have damaged this vast resource so pervasively. Still, as his awe-inspiring final pages make clear, the ocean will outlast us, though, like us, will eventually die. Anyone who wants to know more about the ocean will enjoy Mapping the Deep. For any budding oceanographers, it is a "must read." KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2000, Norton, 246p, illus, bibliog, index, 21cm, $15.95. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Gloria Levine; Freelance Education Writer, Potomac, MD, March 2001 (Vol. 35 No.2)
Acknowledgments Prologue: The Sea at Dawn 1. Beginnings 2. The Seafloor Moves 3. To Map Is to Know 4. Islands in the Deep 5. Springtime 6. Blue Water 7. Invisible Garden 8. Twilight of the Cod 9. Where the Water Goes 10. Turning Off the Currents Epilogue: An End Selected References Index
\ KLIATTKunzig, the European editor of Discover magazine, has written a comprehensive and fascinating book about ocean science that will appeal to true science fans—especially those who are drawn to the mysteries of Earth's final frontier. Kunzig has a gifted storyteller's flair for capturing vivid images in lyric prose ("Imagine you looked out your window one morning and saw jellyfish," he begins). That is a good thing, for he covers a wealth of material that might otherwise overwhelm even dedicated ocean-loving readers. Do you want information about abyssal storms, bristle worms, epibenthic sleds, fracture zones and ocean dispersal of larvae? Would you like to know more about the big names in oceanography and hear some true-life stories about how they go about their work? Would you like to see pictures of five-foot tube worms and the thermohaline circulation of the ocean and an edible bologna sandwich that survived underwater for 10 months in a sunken submersible? That and much more are all within these 345 pages. While his focus is on oceanography, Kunzig makes an eloquent case against the over fishing and release of pollutants that have damaged this vast resource so pervasively. Still, as his awe-inspiring final pages make clear, the ocean will outlast us, though, like us, will eventually die. Anyone who wants to know more about the ocean will enjoy Mapping the Deep. For any budding oceanographers, it is a "must read." KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2000, Norton, 246p, illus, bibliog, index, 21cm, $15.95. Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Gloria Levine; Freelance Education Writer, Potomac, MD, March 2001 (Vol. 35 No.2)\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsNorton published an earlier edition in 1999 as . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \ \ Simon GarfieldThere can be few better introductions to our watery planet... \ —Financial Times\ \ \ \ \ Jon TurneyLike the oceans themselves, Kunzig's book is large and contains multitudes . . . . Compelling. \ —The Guardian\ \ \ \ \ Maggie GeeRobert Kunzig has an epic saga to tell and he does it with flair and an infectious excitement. \ —Daily Telegraph\ \ \ \ \ Richard SheltonHard to put down. . . . holds our interest with a grip that would do credit to Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie.\ —Times Literary Supplement\ \
