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![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, each idea feels boundaryless and bounces from one to the next - more Walter Benjamin than Aldo Leopold.Įvery chapter is organized by theme and features a shell representing that theme. The book doesn’t read like a dry recitation of information, though. When I flipped to a random page, I counted no fewer than 15 separate facts in just a few paragraphs. Barnett layers and presents her data in a dizzying and impressive way. ![]() The Sound of the Sea is exhaustively researched, weaving together history, biology, nature writing, and the personal histories of those who, throughout time, have been especially influenced by seashells. In her new book, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans, environmental journalist Cynthia Barnett tries to unravel the Siren-like spell that shells have cast on us and what we can learn from those shells as our climate changes. From prehistoric women stringing bits of shell together to a modern-day blind scientist who crawls on his hands and knees across beaches feeling for new specimens, seashells have always held a particular fascination for humans. He was far from alone in his obsession with these mesmerizing, once-living fragments of calcium carbonate. ![]()
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