Deep Blue

My Ocean Journeys

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Take a deep breath.

Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark, while on holiday with his family in Malaysia. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with these 'lords of the sea', and the oceanic life around them. His career as one of the world's most popular naturalists and explorers has taken him to countless underwater places, many never before seen by others. And he's also been witness to the startling decline in fortune of our oceans' wild inhabitants over the past fifty years.

Deep Blue is a book a lifetime in the making: a remarkable blend of memoir, travel, and marine and environmental science that takes us on an unforgettable tour of the many worlds of aquatic life: from underwater deserts and rainforests to the evolution of ocean heroes like the sea turtle and the Great White, from the genesis of ocean life to the rapidly declining state of white polar seas and coral reefs. It's both a love letter to our precious oceans and rallying cry for what we must to do save them.

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Adventurers, Explorers & Survival

Ecosystems & Habitats

Nature & Ecology

Outdoors & Nature

Science

Polar Region

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Really interesting and well read audiobook. I very much enjoyed it and it truly was a delight in the wee small hours with my newborn! Steve has a very calm voice (when not hugely excited about fauna and flora in front of him!) and that helped a lot with making my evenings relaxed and pleasant. Some of the chapters were saddening, how can you not get upset about whaling really? But I think that it presented a balanced and informative approach to those issues. A really great book, and when I finally get some time I might even get the paper copy!