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Author:
Jacobsen, Rowan.
Title:
The living shore : rediscovering a lost world / Rowan Jacobsen ; illustrated by Mary Elder Jacobsen.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
167 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Oyster culture--Puget Sound.--Puget Sound.
Oyster fisheries--Vancouver Island.--Vancouver Island.
Olympia oyster--Conservation.
Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.)--Environmental conditions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Tides -- First contact -- White gold -- Ghost creatures -- The engineer of the estuary -- In search of a vintage Ferrari -- How to kill a bay -- Why here and not there? -- Abundance -- America's first banquet -- The food that made us human -- Maps and mazes.
Summary:
A marine scientist, together with Rowan and a conservancy group interested in habitat restoration, suggests a possible blueprint for cleaning up our oceans by observing an isolated pocket of oysters living on the western side of Vancouver Island.
ISBN:
1596916842 (hardcover)
9781596916845 (hardcover)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)314113980
LCCN:
2009008903
Locations:
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

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