The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef From Captain Cook to Climate Change [Audiobook] download free by Iain Mccalman
- Listen audiobook: The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef From Captain Cook to Climate Change
- Author: Iain Mccalman
- Release date: 2015/6/2
- Publisher: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780374535346
- Rating: 7.65 of 10
- Votes: 475
- Review by: Chad Elkins
- Review rating: 9.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/28
- Duration: 4H26M38S in 256 kbps (70.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, MPEG-4 SLS, ATRAC, WMA, WAV, FLAC (compression TGZ, ZIP, JAR, RAR, DMG, Z, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 352
- Includes a PDF summary of 42 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 32M (8.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new adventure into the reef to reveal how our shifting perceptions of the natural world have shaped this extraordinary seascape. Showcasing the lives of twenty individuals spanning more than two centuries, The Reef highlights our profound desire to conquer, understand, embrace, and ultimately save the world's most complex ocean ecosystem.Opening with the story of Captain James Cook, who sailed unknowingly into the southwest entrance of this vast network of coral outcroppings, McCalman shows how Cook spent months navigating this treacherous underwater labyrinth, struggling to keep his crew alive and his ship afloat, sparring with deceptive shoals and wary native islanders. Through a series of dramatic tales from intrepid explorers, unwitting castaways, inquisitive naturalists, enchanted artists, and impassioned environmentalists who have collectively shaped our ideas about the Great Barrier Reef, McCalman demonstrates how this grand natural wonder of the world was built as much by human imagination as by the industrious, beautiful creatures of the sea. A romantic, historically significant book and a deeply personal journey into the heart of a marine environment in peril, The Reef powerfully captures the delicate relationship between humanity and the natural world.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Marine Biology, Australasian & Pacific History, Oceanography (seas), Earth: Natural History General
- Download servers: 4Shared, Rapidgator.net, Uploaded, FreakShare, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, Google Drive, HowFile.com. Compressed in TGZ, ZIP, JAR, RAR, DMG, Z, LZO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.17 USD
- Dimensions: 140x208x23mm
- Weight: 272g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York
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