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The Unnatural History of the sea [Audiobook] download free by Callum Roberts

The Unnatural History of the sea Audiobook download free by Callum Roberts
  • Listen audiobook: The Unnatural History of the sea
  • Author: Callum Roberts
  • Release date: 2009/3/23
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Natural History
  • ISBN: 9781597265775
  • Rating: 8.63 of 10
  • Votes: 629
  • Review by: Rashad Beard
  • Review rating: 7.8 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/21
  • Duration: 5H39M3S in 256 kbps (91.2 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-31
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, MPC, WAV, AAC, WMA (compression ALZ, LZ, ZIP, RAR, ACE, TZ)
  • Total pages original book: 456
  • Includes a PDF summary of 49 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 37M8S (9.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Islannd was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail.As Callum M. Roberts reveals in THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA, the oceans' bounty didn't disappear overnight. While today's fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the 11th century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas.Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by 15th century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas.The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Central Government Policies, Oceanography (seas), Sea Life & The Seashore, Conservation Of The Environment, Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 55.28 USD
  • Dimensions: 153x229x27.43mm
  • Weight: 630.49g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Washington, United States

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