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World Without Fish

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Announcing the paperback edition of World Without Fish, the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account—for kids—of what’s happening to the world’s oceans and what they may be able to do about it. Written by Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling writer of Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster, and lots of other books, World Without Fish has been praised as “urgent” (Publishers Weekly) and “a wonderfully fast-paced and engaging primer on the key questions surrounding fish and the sea” (Paul Greenberg, writer of Four Fish).?It has also been included in the New York State Expeditionary Learning English Language Arts Curriculum.

Written by a master storyteller, World Without Fish connects all of the dots—biology, economics, evolution, politics, climate, history, culture, food, and nutrition—in a way that kids can truly take into account. It describes how the fish we most commonly eat, including tuna, salmon, cod, swordfish—even anchovies— could disappear within fifty years, and the domino effect it would have: the oceans teeming with jellyfish and turning pinkish orange from algal blooms, the seabirds disappearing, then reptiles, then mammals. It describes the back-and-forth dynamic of fishermen, who are the original environmentalists, and scientists, who not that long ago regarded as fish an endless resource. It explains why fish farming isn’t the answer—and why sustainable fishing is, and how to help return the oceans to their natural ecological balance.

Interwoven with the book is a twelve-page full-color graphic novel. Every beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to the next to form a larger fictional story that perfectly complements the text.

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