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Not since Rachel Carson has a writer given us such a profoundunderstanding--gorgeously lyrical and steeped in vital newscience--of the world's oceans. At the center of "Deep Blue Home"is Whitty's mesmerizing de*ion of the three-dimensional oceanriver, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encirclingthe globe: a watery force connected to the earth's climate controland so to the eventual fate of the human race.Whitty's thirty-yearcareer as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustainedaccess to the scientists dedicated to the study of everything fromvast ocean systems to "extremophile" life forms to the ecology of"whale falls" (what happens upon the death of a behemoth)--an eventWhitty describes with Zenlike focus. She delivers a spiritednarrative of her first field season on the tiny and brutallyisolated Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California, where she comes underthe spell of the intimate ecology of seabird, island, andespecially ocean.No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travelsfrom Newfoundland to the Galapagos to Antarctica in search of spermwhales, resulting in one of her book's intensely hauntingencounters: "I realize that I am about to learn the answer to mylong-standing question about what would happen to a person in thewater if a whale sounded directly alongside--would she, like aperson afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?"JuliaWhitty once again delivers gripping adventure, new science, and anintimate understanding of our deep blue home.