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类别 页数 译者 网友评分 年代 出版社
书籍 456页 2020 Island Press
定价 出版日期 最近访问 访问指数
USD 28.00 2020-02-20 … 2020-07-21 … 94
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作者
Dr. Callum Roberts      ISBN:9781597261029    原作名/别名:《》
内容和作者简介
The Unnatural History of the Sea摘要

Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the

explorers set sail.

As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight. While today’s fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas.

Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas.

The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.

作者简介

1.作者介绍

卡鲁姆•罗伯茨(Callum Roberts,1962— ),英国约克大学环境系教授,海洋保护生物学家,世界自然基金会英国大使,兼任美、英等国家级海洋保护区顾问。主要研究领域为人类活动对海洋生态系统的影响。

2.代表作品

本书为其代表作,获得“蕾切尔•卡逊环境书籍奖”,并被《华盛顿邮报》评为2007年度十大好书

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