Soundings
Diving for stories in the beckoning sea
$34.18
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2023
Summary
Perhaps the closest a human being comes to visiting another planet is to descend into the sea. In Soundings, Kennedy Warne connects his lifelong exploration of the underwater world with a global story of humanity’s relationship with the sea. Drawing on more than 20 years of fieldwork for National Geographic, he shares experiences that range from diving with harp seals under the sea ice of the Gulf of St Lawrence to following the legendary ‘sardine run’ along South Africa’s Wild Coast; from watching turret-building ghost crabs in Arabia to witnessing the impact of dynamite fishing in the Philippines; from swimming with crocodiles in the Okavango Delta to finding seahorses on the Eastern Cape. From a myriad underwater encounters a wider conversation emerges about human engagement with the sea. One question dominates: How can we care for and reconnect with the oceans around us?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781991016447 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1991016441 |
| Author: | Kennedy Warne |
| Publisher: | Massey University Press |
| Imprint: | Massey University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 8 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 138mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
Vivid, entertaining and instructive encounters with the underwater world
– John Daly-PeoplesThis collection is a gift to those of us who love the sea and feel its call, whether experienced divers and sailors like Warne himself, or those like me who hover at the shoreline in wonder.
– Gem WilderKennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne is the founding editor of New Zealand Geographic and has written extensively for that magazine and for its American counterpart, National Geographic. He has written books about the world’s disappearing mangrove forests (Let Them Eat Shrimp), on the Tūhoe iwi (Tūhoe: Portrait of a Nation) and on his first 20 years with New Zealand Geographic (Roads Less Travelled), as well as two children’s books in collaboration with illustrator Heather Hunt (The Cuckoo and the Warbler and It’s My Egg: And You Can’t Have It!). In addition to writing, for the past 13 years he has been the outdoors correspondent for Radio New Zealand’s weekday Nine to Noon programme, with a segment called ‘Off the Beaten Track’.
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