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Ocean exploration intertwined with human progress.

If you have a fascination for both history and science, "To Follow the Water" presents a harmonious blend that could captivate you. Dallas Murphy weaves together historical anecdotes and modern oceanography with a narrative flair, making it an informative yet accessible read. It's especially relevant now, shedding light on our relationship with the oceans and the critical role they play in climate science. It could change the way you see our planet's blue expanses.

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To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate

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ISBN: 9780465005109
Authors: Dallas Murphy
Publisher: Basic Books
Date of Publication: 2008-06-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Environment, Nature, Science
Goodreads rating: 3.85
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In To Follow the Water , critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he connects the great ages of ocean exploration from Columbus, Magellan, and Cook to the development of modern oceanography. Letting scientists speak for themselves at sea and ashore, Murphy learns that oceanographers are not only observing and explaining the ocean's dynamic, global circulation, but also employing their skills, tools, and techniques to understand and predict climate change. To Follow the Water is an enlightening and entertaining voyage of discovery spanning the evolution of our relationship to the ocean, first as an impediment to human ambition, then as the pathway for Western expansion, and now, most important, as a subject of scientific study with immediate relevance to our future.
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Ocean exploration intertwined with human progress.

If you have a fascination for both history and science, "To Follow the Water" presents a harmonious blend that could captivate you. Dallas Murphy weaves together historical anecdotes and modern oceanography with a narrative flair, making it an informative yet accessible read. It's especially relevant now, shedding light on our relationship with the oceans and the critical role they play in climate science. It could change the way you see our planet's blue expanses.