The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World
Rowan Jacobsen, , illus. by Mary Elder Jacobsen. . Bloomsbury, $20 (167pp) ISBN 978-1-59691-684-5
It is no small achievement to take a quest for a rare, relatively unknown oyster and spin it into a delightful and never didactic instruction on marine conservation from the Chesapeake to Puget Sound. The once abundant Olympia oyster, or “Oly,” now exists in only a few areas of the jagged Pacific Northwest coastline, and Jacobson (
Reviewed on: 07/27/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 978-1-60819-136-9