Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. This song of mingled praise and warning left me shell-shocked, wonder-struck, utterly delighted. A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves.
It is a travelogue, a finely argued indictment of colonization and capitalism, a reanimation of scientists lost to the official narrative, and, most ringingly, the story of the way shells and the soft and vulnerable animals within them reflect back both the greatness of human ingenuity and the equally immense and rippling effect of human harm to the natural world. The Sound of the Sea is as exquisite, many-chambered, and luminous as the shells Cynthia Barnett describes in her wild and hybrid book. SY MONTGOMERY, author of The Soul of An Octopus From the prehistoric to the present, seashells have suffused human life, from giving voice to ancient gods to spurring climate solutions today. The Sound of the Sea is one of those rare, knockout books that has you gasping in surprise on every page. The Sound of the Sea is from a leading science writer at the top of her game: a joy to read, while simultaneously raising troubling questions about our relationship with marine mollusks, oceans, and the planet.
From the calls of Indigenous shell trumpets to the surprising origins of global. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, author of The Wilderness Warrior The story of the wentletrap is one of many told by Cynthia Barnett in The Sound of the Sea, a fascinating new book that explores topics ranging from colonialism to ocean acidification in. THE SOUND OF THE SEA: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans. An instant classic of nature history-a science-driven work of seaside grandeur.
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