Title: The living shore : rediscovering a lost world /
Authors: Jacobsen, Rowan.
Publisher: Bloomsbury,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Oyster culture Washington (State) Puget Sound.; Oyster fisheries British Columbia Vancouver Island.; Olympia oyster Conservation.; Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) Environmental conditions.
Abstract: 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.
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.