{"product_id":"immersion-abbie-gascho-landis-9781610918077","title":"Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This is nature writing at its best.\" --E.O. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eloquent treatise...Landis's book is as much call to action as paean to mesmerizing molluscs.\" --\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rich, accurate, and moving.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lyrical love letter to the imperiled freshwater mussel.\" --\u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Abbie Gascho Landis first fell for freshwater mussels while submerged in an Alabama creek, her pregnant belly squeezed into a wetsuit. After an hour of fruitless scanning, a mussel materialized from the rocks--a little spectaclecase, herself pregnant, filtering the river water through a delicate body while her gills bulged with offspring. In that moment of connection, Landis became a mussel groupie, obsessed with learning more about the creatures' hidden lives. She isn't the only fanatic; the shy mollusks, so vital to the health of rivers around the world, have a way of inspiring unusual devotion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eImmersion\u003c\/i\u003e, Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels--70 percent of North American species are imperiled--will mean for humans and wildlife alike. In \u003ci\u003eImmersion\u003c\/i\u003e, Landis shares this journey, traveling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where endangered mussels are raised one precious life at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mussels have much to teach us about the health of our watersheds if we step into the creek and take a closer look at their lives. In the tradition of writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Sy Montgomery, Landis gracefully chronicles these untold stories with a veterinarian's careful eye and the curiosity of a naturalist. In turns joyful and sobering, \u003ci\u003eImmersion \u003c\/i\u003eis an invitation to see rivers from a mussel's perspective, a celebration of the wild lives visible to those who learn to search.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abbie Gascho Landis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161091807X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781610918077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Island Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Abbie Gascho Landis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43979364925695,"sku":"9781610918077","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb6059a6-9f34-47c1-8fec-1e0883dd6971.jpg?v=1683245160","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/immersion-abbie-gascho-landis-9781610918077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}