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Author:
Cynthia Barnett
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
July 6, 2021
A history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves.
What The Reviewers Say
... a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history.
At several points in her enthralling new book, The Sound of the Sea, Cynthia Barnett warmly recalls her memories of shelling on Sanibel, the southwest Florida island long a mecca for seashell collectors.
In this well-researched, consistently illuminating work, the author smoothly combines environmental science and cultural history.
[A] riveting survey.
