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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World Paperback - 2012

by Carl Safina

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Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Safina takes readers through the four seasons to the four points of the compass. He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace.

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Orion Book Award Winner

An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur Genius and bestselling author Carl Safina.

Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free.

"Each time science tightens a coil in the slack of our understanding," Safina writes, "it elaborates its fundamental discovery: connection." He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace.

In Safina's hands, nature's continuous renewal points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.

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  • Title The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
  • Author Carl Safina
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Publication date 2012-01-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781250002716 / 1250002710
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.58 x 1.09 in (20.83 x 14.17 x 2.77 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Human ecology - Philosophy, Marine ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508

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  • New York Times Book Review, 01/15/2012, Page 24

About the author

Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean, and founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, was named by the Audubon Society one of the leading conservationists of the twentieth century. He's been profiled by The New York Times, and PBS's Bill Moyers. His books and articles have won him a Pew Fellowship, Guggenheim Award, Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. He lives in Amagansett, New York.

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