The stories related by the Vancouver author are connected only by her experience, research and insight into how we are all connected in one way or another to salt water. The seven chapters involve, in order: underwater filming for Hollywood films, sailing for fun around the world, refugees crossing of the Mediterranean to Europe, life in a makeshift house boating community threatened by municipal bylaws, cleaning up ocean plastic debris, the cruise ship culture of exploitation of workers, and the efforts to save the Fraser River sturgeon from extinction.
The Epilogue updates the stories in reverse order until about 2018.
Although the date of publication is 2020, no episodes relate events past 2018. The author could not have foreseen the effects of Covid-19 when predicting “As more people in the developing world enter the middle class ……. cruise ship profits will soar.”
This is aa easy, interesting and sobering read that deserves wide acknowledgement as a seminal environmental warning.
Thanks, Ian.
The Passionate Reader 