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How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures / Sabrina Imbler ; with illustrations by Simon Ban.

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

Summary:

"Imbler profiles ten of the ocean's strangest creatures, drawing astonishing connections between their lives and ours and illuminating wondrous models of survival, adaptation, identity, sex, and care on our faltering planet."-- Adapted from publisher's description.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316540537
ISBN: 0316540536
Physical Description: viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-263).
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.

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