Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas by Colin Woodard


Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas
Title : Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas
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ISBN : 0465015719
ISBN-10 : 9780465015719
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 320
Publication : First published March 23, 2000

The Black Sea is already dead. Because of sea-level rise, an entire nation in the South Pacific, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is being washed away. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, vast stretches of coral reef-called the "rainforests of the ocean" because of their diversity of life-are dying at increasingly rapid rates. The reefs along the entire north coast of Jamaica are dead. Ocean's End is not about the damage our oceans could suffer (and inflict) in ten or a hundred years, if we're not careful. It's an eyewitness account, in compelling and vivid detail, of the massive worldwide destruction that's already happened.

Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas Reviews

  • Kristin

    I am reading this book (or parts of it) for a school project. What I have read is not the most interesting. The thing I do like about the book is the context, and the way it is written. The author is amazing with words, but might find better luck with a different topic. His way of writing in a horror story? Awesome. Either way, not a book I would recommend my peers, or anyone interested in the things I am. For the person whose looking for more of a biography type of story, and packed with information about sea life, please feel free to read this book.

  • Kristi

    This would have been a great book if I had read it around 2002, but so many things have changed since it was written that it was hard to concentrate on the author's examples. Katrina, The BP oil spill, Superstorm Sandy...and those are just the USA examples. It's a much different world, and I'm dying to know how things are NOW vs. how they were looking in 2000. Frustration aside, the book had a very engaging style, and seemed well researched. I'd be interested in reading more by this author.

  • Artie

    A good look at a few specific issues hurting our world's ocean.

  • Zed

    An ey-opening over-view of the state of the worlds oceans.

  • Nora

    I loved this book. I couldnt put it down! It went everywhere with me and i took notes that i have shared with online and offline friends strangers and family!

  • Stephanie Ann

    I had to read it for a class and I really enjoyed it. It offered a unique and personal experience about our worlds oceans.

  • Stacy

    Read it for a class, but I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the condition of our oceans and what we can do to help.