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Jacobsen, Rowan.
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Oyster culture -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound.
Oyster fisheries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island.
Olympia oyster -- Conservation.
Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions.
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The living shore : rediscovering a lost world / Rowan Jacobsen ; illustrated by Mary Elder Jacobsen.
by
Jacobsen, Rowan.
Subjects
Oyster culture
--
Washington (State)
--
Puget
Sound
.
Oyster fisheries
--
British Columbia
--
Vancouver Island.
Olympia oyster
--
Conservation.
Puget
Sound
Watershed
(
Wash
.)
--
Environmental
conditions
.
Publisher Info:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
167 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781596916845 (hardcover)
1596916842 (hardcover)
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.
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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.
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