The whale in the living room
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The Whale in the Living Room follows the thrilling adventures of film-maker, John Ruthven, as he travels the globe, dives into our oceans and passionately recounts his life-affirming experiences.
The thrilling adventures of award-winning wildlife documentary producer, John Ruthven, on a journey of discovery that has helped to uncover many of our ocean's mysteries.
Ruthven has mesmerised audiences across his work producing for Blue Planet and Blue Planet II, making nearly fifty ocean films and working on episodes of Discovery Shark Week, expedition films for National Geographic, and coral conservation documentaries for PBS. Through innovative technology, he has helped capture unique images of a sperm whale mother and calf, pictures of glowing creatures half a mile deep, and grey reef sharks hunting by the light of the moon.
In The Whale in the Living Room Ruthven invites you to swim with him through blue lagoons, dive into the abyss to encounter new life forms, and experience everything from the danger of getting lost at sea to the sadness of finding a starving whale with a fishing net caught in its mouth. Through each remarkable adventure, Ruthven gives insight into what we currently know about the ocean, and our whole blue planet.
The Whale in the Living Room follows the thrilling adventures of film-maker, John Ruthven, as he travels the globe, dives into our oceans and passionately recounts his life-affirming experiences.
What creatures could remain undiscovered in the 95 per cent of the seas that have not been thoroughly explored? How vast, really, are our oceans? The surface of Mars and Venus are better known to us than Earth's seabed. Yet to map the world's ocean to even 100-metre blocks of accuracy, something that environmentalists say is essential for its protection, could take another 300 years. Even creatures that are known to us, like the giant squid, have proved too difficult to accurately capture on film.
Quite literally immersed in his subject, John can help readers understand the magnitude of our planet's oceans and why it is so important for us to protect our seas and the creatures that inhabit them. He is the only producer to have worked full-time on both series of Blue Planet, as well as nearly fifty other films about the sea. Through his first-hand experience, John shows us the loneliness of whale calves in the deep blue, the fear of seals as they dodge great white sharks near the coast, or the curiosity of octopus staring back at us through the camera. His book takes us through the blue rings of South Pacific coral atolls, on submarine rides into the abyss with ancient life forms, and up close and personal encounters with singing humpback whales that make you feel the water around you.
The Whale in the Living Room, like the proverbial 'elephant in the room', is also about how, until recently, we have been largely blind to our polluting of the seas. John, for example, explores how plastic 'went wild' in the ocean; tries to understand how we got into this mess; and see if we can ever untangle the oceans from its grip.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 juni 2022
Aantal pagina's: 368
Hoofdauteur: John Ruthven
Hoofduitgeverij: Robinson
Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 28 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm
Verpakking lengte: 196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 305 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9781472143525