Susan Hand ShetterlyRezensionen

A gem of a book. The book manages to teach conservation without being overly preachy and makes the important connections between the humans of an area, and the creatures that they share that area with.whales, otters,urchins,skeleton shrimp all of them play their parts among workers who harvest and dry, teach and conserve .

Seaweed Chronicles explores the harvest of seaweed in the Gulf of Maine. This book is about relationships - relationships between the local people, large scale commerce, conservationists, seaweed, and all the species that depend on seaweed in one way or another. Shetterly provides us with the personal stories of individual people who work and live at the shore, about the local ecology, about the past, present and ultimately about the future. I found the book eloquently written, interesting and informative, but lacking in detail about the biology of seaweed as opposed to seaweed harvesting. Photographs and a locality map would also have been nice.

This book is about seaweeds and seaweed harvesting. It is an exploration of the complexity and beauty of the wild inshore system of Maine and the people dedicated to it. Beautiful and informative combination of poetic and practical. One statement midway through the book "all river water eventually pours into the oceans" did cause me to ponder the veracity of the science and wish for closer editing.

What does one look for in nature writing? Well, either the pleasure of learning new scientific information, or the joy of wonderful, poetic prose. This 70s (ok 80s) book usually provides, neither. Highlights include "The New Year's Owl", "Sea Stars,"" Coatue" and "A Pair of Osprey". Some of the illustrations are wonderful, others are just plain creepy.

A collection of essays focusing on landscape and wildlife in and around Surry ME over several decades. All written evocatively, and semi-independently, without a connecting story arc; mentions of the author’s family, for example, have her married or divorced, with children toddlers or teenagers or grown and gone. The essays that stand out are about birds: turkeys, loons, cormorants, a raven whose flesh has grown over a strand of fishing line, a hawk with an injured eye. The author was licensed to rehabilitate wild birds; she is observant and compassionate.

A good book to read when talking about recycling and saving trees. Could even plant a tree somewhere on the school grounds after reading the book.