The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea

by Laura Trethewey

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A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionA Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the YearACBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction SelectionA Hill Times Top 100 Selection (2020)Silver Medal, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book AwardsAn 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 thatfollows people as they head out to sea. What they discover holds inspiring and dire implications for the life of theocean— and for all of us back on land. Battles are fought, fortunes made, lives lost, and theoceanapproaches an uncertain future.Behind this human drama, theoceanis growing ever more unstable, threatening to upend life on land.
  • ISBN10 1773101153
  • ISBN13 9781773101156
  • Publish Date 4 February 2020
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Goose Lane Editions
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Language English