| ISBN |
9781784743956 (hardback) |
| Name |
Imbler, Sabrina author. |
| Uniform title |
How far the light reaches |
| Title |
My life in sea creatures / Sabrina Imbler ; with illustrations by Simon Ban. |
| Published |
London : Chatto & Windus, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Description |
263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Notes |
Published in the U.S. by Little, Brown with title: How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures. |
| Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-263). |
| Contents |
If you flush a goldfish -- My mother and the starving octopus -- My grandmother and the sturgeon -- How to draw a sperm whale -- Pure life -- Beware the sand striker -- Hybrids -- We swarm -- Morphing like a cuttlefish -- Us everlasting. |
| Summary |
"As a mixed Chinese and white non-binary writer working in a largely white, male field, science journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena) and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler's debut weaves the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family and coming of age, implicitly connecting endangered sea life to marginalised human communities and asking how they and we adapt, survive and care for each other."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subjects |
Imbler, Sabrina |
| Women authors, American |
| Journalists -- United States |
| Marine animals -- Anecdotes |
| Marine ecology |
| Marine organisms |
| Deep-sea animals |
| Human-animal relationships |
| Genre |
Essays |
| Other Names |
Ban, Simon, 1991- illustrator. |
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