Displaying 1 of 1 2009 Format: Book Author: Jacobsen, Rowan. Title: The living shore : rediscovering a lost world / Rowan Jacobsen ; illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen. Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury, 2009. Description: 167 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm 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. Subjects: Oyster culture -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound. Oyster fisheries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island. Olympia oyster -- Conservation. Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions. Notes: 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. LCCN: 2009008903 ISBN: 9781596916845 1596916842 Other Number: 314113980 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 246196 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 639.92 Jacobsen Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
