- Publisher: Profile
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781788162166
- Product code: 538930
Reef Life
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Since his first dive off Saudi Arabia as a student in 1982, Callum Roberts has spent his career monitoring the coral reefs of the Red Sea. Here he recalls his exploration of the waters of Qatar, Kuwait and Egypt, profiles fellow marine biologists, evokes these extraordinary underwater landscapes, and outlines the threats they face from pollution, climate change and coastal development.
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Reef Life is the story of how Callum Roberts, Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love
with coral reefs and embarked on a thirty-year career. He began as a young university student who had never
been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. And from that moment,
when Callum first cleared his mask, he's never looked back, moving on to survey Sharm El Sheikh, and from
there diving and researching all over the world, including Australia's imperilled Great Barrier Reef and the more resilient reefs of the Caribbean.
His stories are astonishing, lyrical and laced with a wonderful wry humour - and they allow us privileged
access to, and understanding of, the science of our oceans and reefs. Reading this book will also commit
readers to support Callum's goal to get marine reserve status for ten percent of the world's ocean.
with coral reefs and embarked on a thirty-year career. He began as a young university student who had never
been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. And from that moment,
when Callum first cleared his mask, he's never looked back, moving on to survey Sharm El Sheikh, and from
there diving and researching all over the world, including Australia's imperilled Great Barrier Reef and the more resilient reefs of the Caribbean.
His stories are astonishing, lyrical and laced with a wonderful wry humour - and they allow us privileged
access to, and understanding of, the science of our oceans and reefs. Reading this book will also commit
readers to support Callum's goal to get marine reserve status for ten percent of the world's ocean.
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Since his first dive off Saudi Arabia as a student in 1982, Callum Roberts has spent his career monitoring the coral reefs of the Red Sea. Here he recalls his exploration of the waters of Qatar, Kuwait and Egypt, profiles fellow marine biologists, evokes these extraordinary underwater landscapes, and outlines the threats they face from pollution, climate change and coastal development.
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