A year with the seals : unlocking the secrets of the sea's most charismatic and controversial creatures / Alix Morris.
"It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as the subject of decades of study. Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems, and the changing climate. Morris also gets to know all of the competing interests in the intense debate about the newly recovered seal populations in our coastal waters, from local fishermen whose catch is often diminished by savvy seals, to tribes who once relied on seal-hunting for food, clothing, and medicine, to seal rescue workers and biologists, to surfers and swimmers now encountering seal-hunting sharks in coastal waters. A Year with the Seals is a rare look at what happens when conservation efforts actually work, and how human tampering with ecosystems continues to have unexpected consequences. But it's also a gripping adventure story of a journalist determined to understand seals and our relationship with them for herself"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781643755014
- ISBN: 1643755013
- Physical Description: xviii, 282 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-282).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword / by Sy Montgomery -- Preface -- Part one: Autumn. Map of northwest Atlantic ; A seal with something to say ; The traveling seal ; The seal bounty conspiracy ; The mimic -- Part two: Winter. Why did the seal cross the road? ; The graveyard of the Atlantic ; The corkscrew seal mystery ; Scamps or scapegoats? -- Part three: Spring. Map of Puget Sound, Washington ; Blubber busters ; The fish wars ; The chase ; The seal snatcher -- Part four: Summer. Pinnipeds as prey ; Wild Cape Cod ; War and peacebuilding ; The shape-shifter -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.
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