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Borne on a Black Current
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano
HarperCollins Publishers
The seas are full of the cast-offs of humanity, from tub toys that have fallen off container ships to boats swept away in storms to bottled messages deliberately set adrift. That flotsam has given oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer insight into marine currents and how they have influenced the course of history. I
“TUNA: A LOVE STORY”
Tuna are the biggest, fastest, warmest-blooded, warmest-bodied fish in the world, and quite possibly the most tasty. All of which conspire, as Richard Ellis details in “Tuna,” to make them the most endangered. Read the rest of this entry »
