When I first started reading Where the Earth Meets the Sky: Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica by Louise K. Blight, which was published in April of this year, all I could …
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The population of Earth is decreasing, and Rosemary and her daughter escape the increasingly inhospitable conditions on land (radiation, disease) to live in an underwater pod. At least that’s what …
In the introduction to Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands author Kim De Wolff writes: Sail through the North Pacific Ocean and surely you cannot miss …
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Sara Ackerman’s novel The Shark House is a richly layered, atmospheric love letter to sharks — as well as the oceans and other animals — that unravels mysteries both immediate and deeply …
A Novel, by Kate Woodworth Sibylline Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… the trees commingle their …
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science and Poetry By Maria Popova Illustrations by Ofra Amit Storey Publishing, 2024 If books are medicine, The Universe in Verse …
Christina Rivera is an author from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her debut book, MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize, a …
In Charlotte McConaghy’s lovely new novel, Wild Dark Shore, Dominic Salt and his family—eighteen-year-old Raff, seventeen-year-old Fen, and nine-year-old Orly—moved to Shearwater Island eight years earlier, when Dominic “needed a …
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Here are a number of recently published or about-to-be-published books that have come across our desks. Love Story with Birds By Derek Furr “Let us be at a loss for …
Read more: New and forthcoming environmental books (September 2024)
What do we know about life in the ocean, and what can the varied forms of life there teach us about our own lives and selves? These are the questions …
Read the review: Book Review: How Far the Light Reaches: A Life In Ten Sea Creatures
Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “…a woman’s place…is in the wild.” This remarkable book is a memoir, a unique lesson in natural history, a love poem to the wild, …
Read the review: Book Review: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals