Seaweed chronicles a world at the water's edge

""Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth," writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. "Why wouldn't seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?" On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing na...

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Main Author: Shetterly, Susan Hand, 1942- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Prologue -- The Gulf of Maine -- The underwater forest -- Flat Island -- Ghost fish -- Seaweed stories -- Harvests and history -- Starting from scratch -- Seeding the string -- The uneasy art of making policy -- The common eider duck -- The European green crab -- The world according to Ascophyllum -- Tending the wild -- Epilogue. 
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