What the Wild Sea Can Be

Authoritative and entertaining...a passionate look at how saving the seas is an essential part of saving ourselves...The author's writing is lucid and compelling, featuring a nice mix of personal experience and convincing scientific data * Kirkus Reviews * In What the Wild Sea Can Be Helen Scales has created something remarkable: a thrillingly expansive, deeply personal and often startlingly beautiful portrait of the ocean and its inhabitants that also charts a path to a better and more sustainable world. Urgent, exhilarating and marvellously researched and written, it is necessary reading for anybody who cares about the future of the planet -- James Bradley, author of DEEP WATER Here is one of our greatest communicators whose brilliance as a scientist is matched by her sublime skill as a writer. Helen Scales paints a dazzling picture of our seas from top to bottom and all around the edges to show us why - and how - we must protect them. She is not afraid to spell out what we stand to lose if we don't change our ways, and it is terrifying... This is a book of love and urgency and sense. What the Wild Sea Can Be dives deep into the titanic power of the ocean's life-giving system. It is rich and fascinating, stirring and mind-expanding, and utterly essential -- Keggie Carew, author of BEASTLY A wonderfully wise and richly researched examination of our blue planet's extraordinary and precarious living seas; I learned so much from this delightfully detailed book. Scales is the perfect guide on a dive into these fascinating ocean ecosystems, whence the reader surfaces newly galvanised to protect its wonders -- Gaia Vince, author of NOMAD CENTURY Written by a highly articulate expert in the field, [it is] so comprehensive and insightful that it will be a long time before it's surpassed -- Tim Flannery * New Statesman (on THE BRILLIANT ABYSS) * Stylish, eloquent . . . Enthralling and richly expressed and highlights how closely our lives depend on the deep -- Robin McKie * Guardian (on THE BRILLIANT ABYSS) * It is, indeed, weirdness all the way down, and Scales's bestiary is a wonderful introduction to its variety...Scales's enthusiasm for her subject is matched by a gift for visual evocation -- Steven Poole * Daily Telegraph (on THE BRILLIANT ABYSS) * Scales's great gift is for transmuting our awe at the wonders of the deep sea into a kind of quiet rage that they could soon be no more * New York Times Book Review (on THE BRILLIANT ABYSS) *