Ocean Country

One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in Her Quest to Save the Seas

2015 INDIES Winner
Silver, Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction)
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Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. After a near-drowning accident, Liz Cunningham crisscrosses the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our dazzling but endangered oceans. This intimate account charts her thrilling journey through unexpected encounters with conservationists, fishermen, sea nomads, and scientists in the Mediterranean, Sulawesi, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Papua, New Guinea.