![]() ![]() It is as complex, multichambered and beautiful as its subject, and if Barnett can awaken our sense of wonder, then perhaps there is hope for jump-starting our collective sense of responsibility toward the oceans and one another." - Katherine Norbury - The Washington Post ""Seashells were money before coin, jewellery before gems, art before canvas," says science writer Cynthia Barnett in her arresting meditation on shells and ocean history. It stretches our capacity to absorb new knowledge. ![]() It is a history of fascination and of shame. "The Sound of the Sea" is a glorious history of shells and of those who have loved shells. Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of natures creations. Cynthia Barnett presents us with a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history - scientific, cultural, philosophical and economic - of one of the most beloved and enduring natural objects on Earth: the seashell. Buy The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett for 27.99 at Mighty Ape Australia. Barnett's account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation." - 24 Books to Read this Summer - The New York Times Book Review ". ![]()
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