Binding: Paperback
Description: " The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation." Library Journal" Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas." The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award Environment Category It started with a glass octopus. Dusty broken and all but forgotten it caught Drew Harvell's eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father - son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed away for decades in a storage unit. More than 150 years earlier the Blaschkas had been captivated by marine invertebrates and spun their likenesses into glass documenting the life of oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts. Inspired by the Blaschkas uncanny replicas Harvell set out in search of their living counterparts. In A Sea of Glass she recounts this journey of a lifetime taking readers along as she dives beneath the ocean's surface to a rarely seen world revealing the surprising and unusual biology of some of the most ancient animals on the tree of life. On the way we glimpse a century of change in our ocean ecosystems and learn which of the living matches for the Blaschkas creations are indeed as fragile as glass. Drew Harvell and the Blaschka menagerie are the subjects of the documentary Fragile Legacy which won the Best Short Film award at the 2015 Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit. Learn more about the film and check out the trailer here.
Title: A Sea Of Glass Searching For The Blaschkas Fragile Legacy In An Ocean At Risk
Author(s): Harvell Drew
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520303577
Pages: 232 Pages, 50 Color Images
Publication Date: 4/2/2019
Series: Organisms and Environments
Category: Marine Biology