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Tuna: A Love Story eBooks
by Richard Ellis
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Tuna: A Love Story Summary
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"An artful, detailed account of the tuna, and an entreaty that this not be its swan song." --Kirkus "Timely, balanced, and passionate." --Library Journal "Anyone who relishes this seafood will think twice after digesting Ellis's cautionary tuna tome." --Booklist "With all the authority and grace for which his writings are renowned, Richard Ellis offers up an impassioned plea to protect and save one of the deep ocean's loveliest creatures. His scrupulously considered view--that our very modern craving for sushi and sashimi have caused us to love the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna unwisely and much too well--needs to be firmly remembered." --Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World "If there is any hope for the endangered, majestic bluefin, it lies in Richard Ellis's extensively researched, carefully written, and beautifully illustrated call to action." --John McCosker, Chair of Aquatic Biology, California Academy of Sciences "Our foremost contemporary ocean chronicler, Richard Ellis, offers here an impassioned plea to consider the grandeur–and the tragic demise–of the swiftest, strongest fish that migrate across our water planet. While fully documenting the unique biology and fascinating history of the tuna species, Ellis casts clear light on the practice of 'tuna ranching' aimed at keeping humans sushi-supplied despite the disappearance of wild bluefin populations. This is nature writing at its best, from the heart." –Dick Russell, author of Eye of the Whale and Striper Wars &q... |
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