Reviews

The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World by Rowan Jacobsen

pseud0bread's review

4.0

I don't know if I should read more books about nature or fewer, but I always walk away from them thinking about how terrible humans generally are at keeping the only planet they've got going. It makes me sad. Good book, though.

kimdenise's review

5.0

I wish I could give this book ten stars. A gorgeous marriage of graceful prose with science and adventure, suffused with reverence for the natural world and a piercing sadness for the changes we have wrought in it. But also hope. I keep coming back to the hope.

I don't really enjoy writing reviews but I feel obligated to say something about a book like this. Read it!!

satyridae's review

3.0

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this slender volume. It's got adventure, prehistory, First Nations, and more, all wrapped around the delicious oyster. Absolutely fascinating and at the same time sobering. There's so much that we thought we knew that was wrong regarding how the coasts were settled that this volume refutes, and there's so much left to learn. Highly recommended for Left Coasters.