Map
Introduction
Diving for Oldies
Fishness
Going with the Flow
When the reef was ours
Reefscape with sea-serpents
The tears of the turtle
Seagrass harvest
Chick city
An island in time
Stressed-out reefscape
The beginning of the end of it all
Saltwater spirituality
Index
ROSALEEN LOVE is a widely published author of speculative fiction
and is known for her contribution to wider public understanding of
science. Rosaleen did her PhD in History and Philosophy at the
University of Melbourne, and today works from the Department of
Communication, Language and Cultural Studies, Victoria University
of Technology.
Love's work springs from an abiding interest in the history of
ideas, including wrong ideas, from science to future studies. She
is an invited member of the Humanity 3000 seminar series for
1999-2000, organised by the Foundation for the Future, Seattle.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been studied before, but Love aims to explore its meaning as it is experienced by past, present, and future groups: mariners, fishermen, and pearl shellers, Aborigines, scientists, and tourists. The author of two collections of speculative fiction and editor of an anthology of Australian science writing, Love balances her historical views with personal perspective. Watching birds, she muses about the damage we do in spite of our awareness and care, and she counterposes beautiful descriptions of fauna with amounts, costs, and dates of the damage done. She strives to define her own relationship to the reef and is at her best when she matches her scholarship with her experiences, as in the chapter "Diving for Oldies," about the history of scuba diving and learning the sport at the age of 58. Reefscape provides a list of books for further reading and web sites of interest. Recommended for all libraries. Elizabeth C. Stewart, Portland, ME Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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