A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas` Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Searching For The Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy In An Ocean At Risk
- Editore:
University of California Press
- Collana:
- Organisms And Environments
- EAN:
9780520285682
- ISBN:
0520285689
- Pagine:
- 240
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione A Sea of Glass - Searching for the Blaschkas` Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell's eye and inspired one of the greatest adventures of her life. From diving for dangerous jellyfish in the Mediterranean to searching for harpoon-backed sea slugs in Southeast Asia, A Sea of Glass recounts the author's quest to document the living invertebrates that inspired history's greatest father-son glassmaking team to spin their likeness into glass more than 160 years ago. The story of these artists, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, whose menagerie of unusual marine creatures was packed away for decades in a Cornell University storage unit, provides a time capsule of life in earlier oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts.
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