Blue Machine

How the Ocean Shapes Our World

Hardcover, 464 pages

English language

Published July 1, 2023 by Transworld Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-911709-10-7
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All of Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.

Human history has been dictated by the ocean; the location of cities, access to resources, and the gateway to new lands have all revolved around water. We live inside the weather the ocean generates and breathe in what it breathes out. Yet despite our dependence, our awareness of its totality is minimal.

In a book that will re-calibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it. From the Ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves, to permanent residents of the deep like the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she …

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Subjects

  • Nonfiction
  • Science
  • Nature
  • Environment
  • History
  • Ecology