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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Safina, Carl

Paperback

Environmental Studies

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 1250002710
ISBN13: 9781250002716
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.81
Height: 1.09 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Orion Book Award Winner

An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur Genius and bestselling author Carl Safina.

Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free.

Each time science tightens a coil in the slack of our understanding, Safina writes, it elaborates its fundamental discovery: connection. He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace.

In Safina's hands, nature's continuous renewal points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.

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