The High Seas (eBook)

The best introduction I have ever read to the biological, technical, and institutional issues connected with the High Seas and the exploitation of its resources. A gem of a book!

In her bold investigative book, Heffernan takes the reader on a journey like no other...a must-read book that will speak to everyone

A wonderful and eye opening book ... [The High Seas] is an impressive and sweeping study, ranging masterfully across time and space

An urgently needed wake-up call about the threat to some of the planet's most vital but often overlooked ecosystems: the deep oceans. Profoundly informed, passionately written and thrillingly adventurous, Heffernan's book is both a masterful study in natural history and a forensic survey of the forces and activities that could cause irreparable harm to these precious resources.

With energy equal to her profound subject, Heffernan boards many ships and journeys from the Arctic to the Antarctic to bring us an illuminating portrait of a world we rarely see and barely understand - and of the hidden forces that threaten to wreck it

There's a lyrical quality to Dr Heffernan's description of the diversity of marine life, and an ease with which she alternates science with historical nuggets

The High Seas features a huge array of stories, brilliantly encapsulated in one book ... it's a fantastic and chilling read that takes us on a remarkable journey

Compelling ... admirably clear-eyed, refusing the easy consolation of toothless treaties and mollifying pabulum from politicians

Heffernan's reporting reveals our human imprint everywhere in the oceans, from the surface to the seafloor, by deciphering the geopolitics, economics, environmental sciences, and morality behind our use of the high seas

A powerful, detailed and important book

A vital book at a deeply contested moment in history for our oceans and humanity at large. With beautifully rendered portraits and a thoughtful examination of the science, Heffernan has accomplished something extraordinary: bringing sense and rhythm to the contested, perilous, and often chaotic realm of our most remote seas

This book is the essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas, written by someone who has done more than almost anyone on earth in the last few years to understand the problems we face, and the solutions that might be available.

Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities

A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness, owned by us all and by no one. This is powerful and urgent reportage that rips the veil of romanticism to reveal a vast world of criminal and dangerous enterprise accelerating beyond our shores, threatening us all. Shocking and starkly illuminating - a must-read.

Fast-paced, thoroughly reported and deeply disquieting