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THE BLUE
Seven-tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by water; yet, in an era when we can send probes to the outer reaches of the solar system, the oceans remain relatively unknown.
This book was published to celebrate our planet's oceans and the people who have contributed to this book are lovers of the sea. Their combined knowledge and passion has produced a unique publication which will take you on a voyage into a universe we barely understand.
Contributions include: Sylvia Earle, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Buzz Aldrin, Valerie Taylor, David Bellamy, Martha Holmes, Tim Severin, Bob Halstead and Julian Partridge. Nowhere else will you find a greater compilation of experts on the ocean and photography of the world underwater. Breathtakingly illustrated and designed, this special and limited edition is published in conjunction with UNESCO to celebrate our planet's oceans. It features some of the greatest ocean writers and underwater photographers. |
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EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK:
THE FINAL FRONTIER
The Greatest era of exploration on Earth is dawning as mankind begins, for the first time, to gain effective working access to the depths of the sea - and thus to the heart and soul of what makes this planet hospitable for us and all other known forms of life.
It is widely understood that the oceans shape the character of the world's climate and weather, drive planetary chemistry and provide a home for most of life on Earth. The oceans generate more than 70 per cent of the oxygen in the atmosphere, stabilize temperature and otherwise serve as the cornerstone of our life support system. Yet less than five per cent of that vast realm has been explored, despite the growing awareness that the oceans are vital to human survival and well-being.
New discoveries, new knowledge and new insights - a fragment of the knowledge that waits to be discovered - have already heightened our understanding of te importance of the sea to all living things, inspired new reasons to care, helped us begin to figure out how to repair the damage we have wrought and how to protect those vital species and systems that still remain intact. We are at the threshold of a new era of understanding.
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...perhaps the most stunning discovery of all has been made in just the last decade, a breakthrough at least equivalent to the news that the sun does not revolve around the Earth and that our small planet is not the centre of the universe. So jolting is its significance, the consequences to our way of life so profound, that future generations may mark this discovery as the most important of the millennium, or perhaps the most important ever. Many still register disbelief, clinging to old illusions, but the evidence is irrefutable. The discovery is this: the sea is finite.
- Sylvia Earle
SPECIFICATIONS
Jacketed hardback, 280 x 280 mm, 240 pages,
210 colour photographs. 
There is only a small number (60 copies)
of The Blue remaining.
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