The delicate relationships of life’s many forms, from whales and sharks to rays and coral, contained within Earth’s liquid artistry, offers an opportunity to enrich our understanding of connections we seldom perceive but which, once acknowledged, expand the perception of life’s wealth. I urge you to read the author, Sara Ella's, review for this book as she includes a full list of trigger warnings.

Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers their exploration, geology, biology and ecology, human impacts, and their outlook in a warming, acidifying ocean. A scientific and social background for the novel is found in Darwinism, of the natural and the social kind. If you know anyone who has depression, if YOU have depression, or even if you don’t, you need to read this book.Triggers: Suicidal Depression, Anxiety, Synesthesia (idk if that's a trigger or not tbch), Survivor's Guilt, Cutting, Suicide, unwanted advances (Note: although these are all thoroughly explored, the author conveyed them in such a way that it isn't disgraced nor encouraged. Modern critics consider the book's worldview to be dated and imperialist, but although less popular today, The Coral Island was adapted into a four-part children's television drama broadcast by ITV in 2000. Coral has always been different, standing out from her mermaid sisters in a society where blending in is key.

For weeks at a time, I and two colleagues, John Korstgård and Kai Sørensen, camp in some of the world’s greatest wilderness landscapes. Although mostly neglected by modern scholars [26] and generally considered to be dated in many aspects, in 2006 it was voted one of the top twenty Scottish novels at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference. Ballantyne never visited the coral islands of the South Pacific, relying instead on the accounts of others that were then beginning to emerge in Britain, which he exaggerated for theatrical effect by including "plenty of gore and violence meant to titillate his juvenile readership". Over his career, Leidy has established his own legacy as one of the world’s foremost underwater photographers, finding inspiration in the depths of the world’s oceans.I'd originally posted a review that was pretty long, but still didn't meet up to what I wanted it to be, so almost 6 months later I'm reattempting. And they weren't detailed-ly described like secular YA either so it is better than normal, but still.

She starts this book with an urgent e-mail in December 2013 – sea stars were dying in Monterey, California, and Drew dropped everything to race off to find out what she could. The band’s sojourn into psychedelia and folk rock was refreshing and inventive, compelling and precocious.If blunt at times I wanted to simply walk away but I persevered and found this story pulled at my heart strings and made me feel for these characters. As pretty as it all sounded, it really made visualizing the chapter and following the events something to muddle through. His life has been rewarding, because of the new science he did, the students and colleagues he worked with, and the sheer joy he experienced diving on reefs.