Ocean Country: One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the SeasBy Liz Cunningham
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Ocean Country: One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the SeasBy Liz Cunningham
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Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz Cunningham crisscrosses the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our dazzling but endangered oceans. This intimate account charts her thrilling journey through unexpected encounters with conservationists, fishermen, sea nomads, and scientists in the Mediterranean, Sulawesi, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Papua, New Guinea.
Ocean Country: One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the SeasBy Liz Cunningham- Amazon Sales Rank: #279264 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.98" h x 1.10" w x 6.01" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 344 pages
Review "A moving testament to the human spirit."—Kirkus Reviews"With genuine emotion and great pragmatism, Cunningham makes passionate pleas for the continued health of the planet." —Publishers Weekly"Cunningham's earnest narration of travels to remote seas around the world is a compelling read. Citing examples of sustainable fisheries and marine-protected areas around the word, the book ends on the hopeful note that we may have stopped hitting the snooze button when it comes to taking action against climate change." —Booklist"Ocean Country is a great read—a moving memoir, a gripping adventure story and a work of committed advocacy all in one volume." —Georgia Rowe, Bay Area News Group"This book comes as a great gift—an overwhelming reminder of the ocean planet on which we live, with its great wonders and the risks it faces."—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and Oil and Honey"Ocean Country is a heroine's journey of near-death and discovery, of hopelessness and rebirth. Cunningham's odyssey reveals how immersion into the problems that overwhelm us is a blessing of self-discovery. Where there is carelessness, we find our tenderness; where there is human suffering, we find our sense of compassion. Where there is damage and degradation, we find faith in ourselves and know that human beings can both resist and change all human ignorance."—Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest and director of Project Drawdown"A beautifully-written memoir that shows us the ocean through Cunningham’s eyes, with grief for what is lost, awe for what remains, and glimpses of future redemption."—Roz Savage, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and author of Rowing the Atlantic and Stop Drifting, Start Rowing "A must read for those who want to preserve the beauty and diversity of our world both on sea and on land."—Arlene Blum, author of Annapurna and Breaking Trail "Liz Cunningham, in the rich tapestry of her book, documents better that any scientific treatise could, what we stand to lose if we continue to let the oceans go."—Daniel Pauly, author of Five Easy Pieces "A thrilling adventure tale, searing exposé, and moving memoir rolled into one. Ocean Country did something rare and precious: it burnished my hope for the future of our oceans."—Karen Garrison, former codirector of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Ocean Program "Wave after wave of gripping narrative—mysterious, funny, prophetic and profound—deftly delivers knowledge crucial to our times."—Catherine Keller, author of Cloud of the Impossible and The Face of the Deep "A stunning account of our endangered oceans—of vanishing coral reefs, collapsing fisheries, mindless exploitation and species loss. But that is only the beginning. Time and again, Cunningham discovers threads of hope in people committed to reversing these tragedies. Taken together, by the end, they unlock a hitherto unimagined and hopeful revelation. You can feel it in the author’s heart. You will feel it in your own."—Richard J. Borden, author of Ecology and Experience “Cunningham has searched and found a powerful response to one of the greatest questions of our time from the deepest part of herself and expressed it with eloquence and wit and discernment, taking the reader along with her for a marvelous ride into a greater state of awareness.”—Susan Murphy, author of Minding the Earth, Mending the World "Ocean Country is a book about the art of the possible. How it is possible to protect the planet’s glorious richness of sea-lives and the life of fisherfolk? How can we harvest the sea without emptying it? How is it possible to bear the oceanic consequences of run-away carbon catastrophe? How is it possible to write a book that both celebrates and informs, calling us to respond with hearts and minds to the crises of the life-sustaining seas? In her book of underwater adventures, Liz Cunningham shows us how.” —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising "Liz Cunningham’s journey is remarkable not only in itself, but because it also symbolizes, and summarizes, important aspects the journeys of everyone concerned about the fate of our planet."—Norman MacLeod, author of The Great Extinctions 'How we’re changing the oceans—and can fix them—can seem all too abstract, until you read Liz Cunningham’s powerful story. She takes you inside her heart as she witnesses a huge coral reef go from vibrantly and colorfully alive to bleached white death over just a few days, and as she feels the splendor of swimming with whales. Her message comes through loud and clear: through our individual actions, each doing what we can, we can nurture the seas we all depend upon, and where we’ve already damaged them, we can nurse them back to health."—Anthony Barnosky, author of Dodging Extinction "What a journey this is—both personal and planetary! These are the kinds of stories we need right now because they help us move from despair to hope. Ocean Country will change the way we look at the seas."—Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-coordinator of the Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology and coauthor of Journey of the Universe "Liz Cunningham takes us on a journey from the Turks and Caicos to the California coastline, to the Mediterranean, and onto the Coral Triangle of the west Pacific. We observe amazing creatures, explore unique habitats and ecosystems, and learn a fair amount of history and science. But the real reward of our adventures is the heightened appreciation we attain for the wonder and beauty, yet fragility, of the world's oceans. We recognize just why we must fight to defend them against the twin threats of heating and acidification caused by our ongoing burning of fossil fuels. If you were looking for another reason to take action to defend our oceans against ongoing environmental assaults, then Ocean Country will provide it."—Michael Mann, director of the Pennsylvania State University Earth Systems Science Center and author of Dire Predictions"The ocean is medicine. That’s what Liz Cunningham’s book shows us. It describes the winding, unpredictable neurological cascades that happen when we connect deeply with our waterways. We experience awe, wonder, purpose, insight, calm, excitement, solitude, romance, empathy, creativity. We become advocates, warriors, custodians, fixers, champions—we become unstoppable. In Ocean Country we meet people where they are as they heal and are reminded how much we all need such healing now."—Wallace J. Nichols, author of Blue Mind"If a pilgrimage is a transformative journey to a sacred place, which I believe it is, Cunningham's quest is a tale of sacred travel at a threshold point in human history. While the oceans are in peril we have it within our power to save them if we humbly recognize our reliance on them and truly experience their miraculous beauty."—Phil Cousineau, author of The Art of Pilgrimage "For those who think the oceans are too vast, too remote, for us to irreversibly delete their biodiversity, Ocean Country, is a sharp rejoinder. In her very personal account, Cunningham shows how we attack the oceans’ species on every front. ‘Biodiversity matters’ she tells us—and provides compelling firsthand accounts of why." —Stuart Pimm, author of The World According to Pimm "A vivid picture of Earth’s ocean biodiversity. This is a beautiful book that will make you go do something about preserving that diversity for future generations."—Mark Williams, coauthor of Ocean Worlds"The wreckage we humans have caused in the ocean is monumental and dispiriting, its seeming inevitability enough to sadden and immobilize compassionate people who’ve come to feel there’s no longer any meaningful way for them as individuals to help. Liz Cunningham faces this tragedy unflinchingly and, working painstakingly through her own personal loss, finds healing and hope in the sea. Bringing us to places of continued abundance and fertility—an Indonesian reef sparkling with life, a fishery restored through a collaboration of fishermen and scientists, a humpback whale nursery where mothers gently tend their calves—her stories are oases of hope, shimmering with the possibility of restoration for the larger, life-giving sea."—Deborah Cramer, author of The Narrow Edge
About the Author LIZ CUNNINGHAM is the author of Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age (Praeger), which features frank and probing oral-history interviews with top television journalists such as Tom Brokaw, Larry King, and Robin MacNeil. She has written for Earth Island Journal, East Bay Express, the Marin Poetry Center Anthology, The Outward Bound International Journal, Times of the Islands, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has collaborated with institutions such as the Academy for Educational Development, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. She also serves on the board of Outward Bound Peacebuilding and holds a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Oceanic Hope and Action By Wordperson Once upon a time there were stories that drew people together—tales told in a circle around a fire, reinforcing the bone-deep truth that we need one another, each person keeping the circle strong.Ocean Country provided such stories for me. This well-written book drew me out of a prolonged burn-out and nudged me back into the circle of “my tribe”(most of whom I will never meet): those who share my passion for the natural world, and who understand that the life-circle—all the land, air and water forms—need help.Taking action to help earth’s suffering ecosystem can be overwhelming, and the daily news disheartening. But Ocean Country actually inspired me, as no environmental text recently has. The book takes the literally and figuratively unfathomable and breaks it down into relevant subjects, travel tales and reflections that informed and uplifted me. Intelligently and honestly, Cunningham personalized a crisis of oceanic proportions. And through her emotional and intellectual journey, I found my own ground to hope and act.Many years ago I went to hear a marine biologist speak at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. This man was discouraged, and was using the science-lecture circuit to spread bitterness and rage via undersea images of “dead” seas and scientifically-based argument that, essentially, we were all screwed because there was no hope for the oceans. Young and impressionable at the time, I believed him. How many hundreds of others believed him and consequently how many positive actions were stopped as a result of his persuasively negative influence?At its present brink, life on earth can’t afford to indulge naysayers. The world desperately needs speakers, thinkers and writers who can inspire hope and action. Through her personal courage and humility, Cunningham is one of them. She writes of the sorrow (and yes depression) that comes from looking directly at the damage done to waters that must sustain human life and breath. Yet, despite recurring close calls, she does not let it crush her spirit. Cunningham provides fresh tales of hope, one after another, featuring interesting sketches of those who are acting to protect key parts of ocean habitat and the fisheries supported by those sites. Some of these characters are scientists, but most are just regular people who see what must be done and figure out ways to do it. Their stories are amazing. They made me want to roll up my sleeves and get back to work on creating solutions.Among my favorite take-aways from Ocean Country is that planetary crises are addressed via bucket line. None of us can douse the flames alone; we can only step up and take our place in line. Just a bucket’s worth of action per person. Writing this review was how I took my place in line for today. It occurs to me that when that line stretches around the world, the curve of the planet bends it into a circle. It’s encouraging to imagine all of us in earth’s bucket-line, bound by stories of hope and by reminders of that bone-deep truth: we need one another, and each of us must do a little something to keep our circle strong.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. We cannot recommend this book enough! By James Crain We cannot recommend this book enough. It should be required reading for the knowledge it imparts, the inspiration it brings the reader, the enjoyment of the read itself, and the hope one is left with upon finishing. I had no idea what to expect when we began this book, how it would address the issues we have been hearing about now for quite a long time. Little did I know how much I would come to love it. Ms. Cunningham makes one feel as if they're an invited guest she has taken along on her journey, one that began, as many great things do, with a near tragedy she turned into a magnificent quest of healing and discovering. She enlightens us on things EVERYONE ought to know, including that, contrary to much of the popular belief, that there is hope - if we all do our part. As I was telling a neighbor of mine about this book, he told me it was his belief it was too late to save the planet. Period. I hate to admit, I've said the same thing. But thanks to Liz's beautiful tome, her odyssey that was shared with such passion and generosity, I no longer feel hopeless, but inspired and uplifted to know there are many, many people like her "out there" in the world. All we need to do is learn, and know and participate in whatever way we can. She demonstrates this time after time, and the people she meets are wonderful and entertaining in themselves, and often, very lovable. Thank you Liz, for this beautiful work. My husband and I are the better for having read it, and, as with any amazing book, were sad to see it end.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I really enjoyed this powerfully written and stunning book By Mary W. Liz Cunningham's OCEAN COUNTRY is written from a heartfelt point of view, originating from a sea accident that would cause most people to walk away from that line of work. But Liz continued on. Her nonfiction memoir, combined with her research and experience on the state of our oceans, is a needed book today. We need to understand the truth about the water that covers the majority of our planet, and how the ocean ecosystems need to be kept in check. Liz has been there, in those watery depths. She's been over it, through it, and under it for years and years, and she shows us her magical journey. I really enjoyed this powerfully written and stunning book.
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