Drew Harvell

From a world-renowned marine biologist comes a transporting exploration of how the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet are informing cutting-edge science. A transporting exploration of the deep sea, and how our planet's strangest, most ancient, and astonishing creatures have urgent relevance to cutting-edge science today. Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms the size and shape of cities, and...

"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal "Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell’s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold...

A transporting, mind-expanding exploration of the deep sea and the strange, astonishing, and most ancient creatures who inhabit it—revealing their hidden worlds and all we can learn from it. A NATURE, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND THE TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A wondrous, mind-expanding journey into our planet's least explored and most critical frontier—the ocean—and the astonishing, ancient creatures...