Ocean’s End: Travels through endangered seas by Colin Woodard, Basic Books,
$15, ISBN 0465015719
ONCE the oceans were a metaphor for the unknown—the vast, mysterious
and frightening world beyond our understanding and influence. Now the cosmos
plays that role in our imagination. And the oceans are increasingly a
junk-filled backyard.
In this enthusiastically written eco-travelogue, journalist Colin Woodard
picks around in the junk and muses on what we have lost.
Join him in the “dead zone” off Louisiana, where nutrients from the
fertilised fields of the Midwest have blitzed an area the size of New Jersey in
the Gulf…
