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The Imperilled Ocean

Human Stories from a Changing Sea

by (author) Laura Trethewey

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Feb 2020
Subjects
Oceans & Seas, Essays, Human Geography, Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773101163
    Publish Date
    Feb 2020

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Description

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Selection
A Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the Year
A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction Selection
A Hill Times Top 100 Selection (2020)
Silver Medal, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards

An exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future.

On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe alive, and whether he will be allowed to stay. In the North Atlantic, a young chef disappears from a cruise ship, leaving a mystery for his friends and family to solve. A water-squatting community battles eviction from a harbour in British Columbia, raising the question of who owns the water.

The Imperilled Ocean by Laura Trethewey is a deeply reported work of narrative journalism that follows people as they head out to sea. What they discover holds inspiring and dire implications for the life of the ocean — and for all of us back on land. Battles are fought, fortunes made, lives lost, and the ocean approaches an uncertain future. Behind this human drama, the ocean is growing ever more unstable, threatening to upend life on land.

About the author

Laura Trethewey is an ocean journalist whose writing has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Courier International, the Walrus, Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic and at Ocean.org, the multimedia storytelling site of the Vancouver Aquarium. The Imperilled Ocean is her first book.

Laura Trethewey's profile page

Awards

  • A <i>Globe and Mail</i> Best Book
  • A <i>Hill Times</i> Top 100 Selection
  • Silver Medal, <i>Miramichi Reader</i>'s "The Very Best!" Book Awards
  • One of <i>CBC Books</i>'s The Best Canadian Nonfiction