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Traces the dramatic history of the Great Barrier Reef and the lives of 20 people it has impacted throughout the past two centuries, recounting their stories while examining the reef's evolving roles as a feared mystery, a scientific challenge and a fragile natural wonder.Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new adventure into the reef to reveal how our shifting perceptions of the natural world have shaped this extraordinary seascape. Showcasing the lives of twenty individuals spanning more than two centuries, The Reef highlights our profound desire to conquer, understand, embrace, and ultimately save the world's most complex ocean ecosystem. Opening with the story of Captain James Cook, who sailed unknowingly into the southwest entrance of this vast network of coral outcroppings, McCalman shows how Cook spent months navigating t

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Author

McCalman, Iain

Publisher

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giro; Scientific American; Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374711702

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Humanities