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Author Jacobsen, Rowan.

Title The living shore : rediscovering a lost world / Rowan Jacobsen ; illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  639.9 JACOBSEN    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 167 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Tides -- First contact -- White gold -- Ghost creatures -- The engineer of the estuary -- In search of a vintage Ferrari -- How to kill a bay -- Why here and not there? -- Abundance -- America's first banquet -- The food that made us human -- Maps and mazes.
Summary A marine scientist, together with Rowan and a conservancy group interested in habitat restoration, suggests a possible blueprint for cleaning up our oceans by observing an isolated pocket of oysters living on the western side of Vancouver Island.
Subject Oyster culture -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound.
Oyster fisheries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island.
Olympia oyster -- Conservation.
Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN 9781596916845 hardcover
1596916842 hardcover
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