How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures

Imbler, Sabrina (author.). Ban, Simon, 1991- (illustrator.).

Summary: "A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780316540513
ISBN: 031654051X
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Little Brown & Company, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	If you flush a goldfish -- My mother and the starving octopus -- My grandmother and the sturgeon -- How to draw a sperm whale -- Pure life -- Beware the sand striker -- Hybrids -- We swarm -- Morphing like a cuttlefish -- Us everlasting.