The World Is Blue
Sylvia A. Earle
  • Published: 12 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781426206399
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

The World Is Blue

How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

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Never more timely, this paperback edition addresses the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with new material, including the complete congressional testimony of Dr. Sylvia Earle, NGS Explorer-in-Residence and Time magazine's "Hero for the Planet." The book will appeal to the growing segment of young people and adults with an interest in the future of the planet, and particularly to readers of Mark Lyman's Six Degrees, Tim Flannery's The Weathermakers, and Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded.

This book tie-in to National Geographic's ambitious 5-year ocean initiative—focusing on overfishing—is written in National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle's accessible yet hard-hitting voice. Through compelling personal stories she puts the current and future peril of the ocean and the life it supports in perspective for a wide public audience.
  • Published: 12 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781426206399
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Sylvia A. Earle

Dr. SYLVIA A. EARLE is a marine biologist, author, lecturer, ocean explorer, and a National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence since 1998. Dr. Earle is a foremost leader in her field. She has a B.S. from Florida State University and a Ph.D. from Duke University. She has published several books with National Geographic and has written extensively for National Geographic. Dr. Earle lives in Oakland, California.

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Praise for The World Is Blue

"Earle is a brilliant defender of the seas and she's lived long enough to see firsthand just how much we've damaged them in the past 75 years ... thankfully her book is urgent without becoming indignant and her prose is interspersed with lots of personal anecdotes from a lifetime of diving and peering out submarine windows." --Boston Sunday Globe

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