The living shore
Subtitle: rediscovering a lost world
By: Rowan Jacobsen.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781596916845
Subjects: Oyster culture -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound; Oyster fisheries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island; Olympia oyster -- Conservation; Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tides; title: First contact; title: White gold; title: Ghost creatures; title: The engineer of the estuary; title: In search of a vintage Ferrari; title: How to kill a bay; title: Why here and not there?; title: Abundance; title: America's first banquet; title: The food that made us human; title: Maps and mazes.