The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation.mdash;Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."mdash;The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award; Environment Category It started with a glass octopus. Dusty; broken; and all but forgotten; it caught Drew Harvellrsquo;s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka; the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed away for decades in a storage unit. More than 150 years earlier; the Blaschkas had been captivated by marine invertebrates and spun their likenesses into glass; documenting the life of oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts. Inspired by the Blaschkasrsquo; uncanny replicas; Harvell set out in search of their living counterparts. In A Sea of Glass; she recounts this journey of a lifetime; taking readers along as she dives beneath the oceans surface to a rarely seen world; revealing the surprising and unusual biology of some of the most ancient animals on the tree of life. On the way; we glimpse a century of change in our ocean ecosystems and learn which of the living matches for the Blaschkasrsquo; creations are; indeed; as fragile as glass. Drew Harvell and the Blaschka menagerie are the subjects of the documentary Fragile Legacy; which won the Best Short Film award at the 2015 Blue Ocean Film Festival Conservation Summit. Learn more about the film and check out the trailer here.
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