Relicts of a Beautiful Sea
Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
By Christopher Norment
288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 3 drawings, 3 maps, 1 graph, notes, bibl
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6878-9
Published: November 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-1866-1
Published: September 2014 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1867-8
Published: September 2014 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4689-1
Published: September 2014
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About the Author
Christopher Norment, professor of environmental science and biology at the College at Brockport, State University of New York, is the author of In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir and Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows.
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Reviews
"A moving meditation on nature. . . . In examining small details in nature, Norment manages to effectively address larger existential issues."--Publishers Weekly
“You don’t typically find intelligent passion like that in treatises with this kind of scientific gravamen, but they glitter throughout the length of Relicts of a Beautiful Sea. This is natural history of the finest order.”--Open Letters
“For those who seek . . . a mélange of science, literature and passion, Relicts of a Beautiful Sea offers sanctuary as rare as the survivors it illuminates.”--Kansas Alumni Magazine
“Creates a poetic-ecological argument for conservation on a global scale. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice
"An intriguing tapestry of scientific exploration and natural history that also takes turns as a eulogy, a love letter, a poem and ultimately a plea."--High Country News
"The marvel of aquatic animal life in isolated, seemingly hostile desert surroundings of the Death Valley region is beautifully captured in this blend of natural history, the hard realities and occasional successes of conservation biology in the region, and personal reflections on nature and human foibles."--Copeia
Multimedia & Links
Listen: Norment talks to KPCW's This Green Earth (4/15/2015).