Screen LibrarySeaweed chronicles : a world at the water's edge /
""Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth," writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. "Why wouldn't seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?" On a planet facing environme...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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""Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth," writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. "Why wouldn't seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?" On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem. In Seaweed Chronicles, Shetterly takes readers deep into the world of this essential organism by providing an immersive, often poetic look at life on the rugged shores of her b |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 271 pages ; 19 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781616205744 1616205741 |
| Index Number: | QK571 |
| CLC: |
S968.4 Q949.2 |
| Call Number: | Q949.2/S554 |
| Contents: | Prologue -- The Gulf of Maine -- The underwater forest -- Flat Island -- Ghost fish -- Seaweed stories -- Harvests and history -- Starting from scratch -- Seeding the string -- The uneasy art of making policy -- The common eider duck -- The European green crab -- The world according to Ascophyllum -- Tending the wild -- Epilogue. |