Deep Blue Home（ISBN=） 英文原版

Not since Rachel Carson has a writer given us such a profound
understanding–gorgeously lyrical and steeped in vital new
science–of the world’s oceans. At the center of “Deep Blue Home”
is Whitty’s mesmerizing de*ion of the three-dimensional ocean
river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling
the globe: a watery force connected to the earth’s climate control
and so to the eventual fate of the human race.Whitty’s thirty-year
career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained
access to the scientists dedicated to the study of everything from
vast ocean systems to “extremophile” life forms to the ecology of
“whale falls” (what happens upon the death of a behemoth)–an event
Whitty describes with Zenlike focus. She delivers a spirited
narrative of her first field season on the tiny and brutally
isolated Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California, where she comes under
the spell of the intimate ecology of seabird, island, and
especially ocean.No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels
from Newfoundland to the Galapagos to Antarctica in search of sperm
whales, resulting in one of her book’s intensely haunting
encounters: “I realize that I am about to learn the answer to my
long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the
water if a whale sounded directly alongside–would she, like a
person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?”Julia
Whitty once again delivers gripping adventure, new science, and an
intimate understanding of our deep blue home.

Part One: Isla Rasa
1. The Very Air Miraculous
2. The River That Was Nowhere and Everywhere
3. Another Heaven
4. Hunger Island
5. The Ornament of the Body
6. One Hundred Days of Solitude
7. Whorls
8. The Unreefed World
9, The Epitome of Unrestrained Freedom
10. Mirage
11. Emotional Ecology
12. The Anti-Bodies of Quiet
13. Everything Is Mready Brilliant
Part Two: The Underwater Rivers of the World
14. The Distant Geography of Water
15. The Ecumenical Sea
16. Deepwater Formation
17. The Tempest from the Eagle’s Wings
18. One Meritorious Act
19. Jump Cut
20. Lament for the Thirty Million
21. All Time Is Now
22. Trophic Cascade
23. Bone Rafters
24. Soundsabers
25. Salting Down the Lean Missionary
26. The Existence of a World Previous to Ours
27. Reading God
28. Nemesis
29. The Inexplicable Waves
30. At the End of Hunger
Part Three: The Airborne Ocean
31. Serpent Cave
32. Black Mirror
Acknowledgments
Notes