The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

by Cynthia Barnett

Book Overview

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.

In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393651444
• ISBN13: 9780393651447
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 8.7"