{"product_id":"deep-blue-home-julia-whitty-9780547520339","title":"Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the center of \u003cem\u003eDeep Blue Home\u003c\/em\u003e--a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it--is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitty's thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of \"extremophile\" life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of \"whale falls\" (what happens upon the death of a behemoth). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica. In the Galapagos, in one of the book's most haunting encounters, she realizes: \"I am about to learn the answer to my long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the water if a whale sounded directly alongside--would she, like a person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Whitty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0547520336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780547520339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.05h x 5.33w x 0.65d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julia Whitty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946771579135,"sku":"9780547520339","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1f98b3c0-311e-44ec-a8de-fa8d62eda6d1.jpg?v=1681515051","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deep-blue-home-julia-whitty-9780547520339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}