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Book Jacket OCEANS
The Threats to our Seas and What You Can Do to Turn the Tide
A PARTICIPANT MEDIA GUIDE
EDITED BY JON BOWERMASTER
SUMMARY   |  EXTRAS
This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans— coming this April from Disney & National Geographic— explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it

More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to understand why it is called Planet Earth rather than Planet Ocean. Since half the world's human population lives within a stone's throw of an ocean coastline, the oceans' health is increasingly important. Rich with resources and potential—as a source of renewable energy, new drugs, drinking water—for years we have treated them as both infinite and undamageable. But they are not.

Over-fishing, climate change, pollution, acidification, and more have put the world's oceans and marine life at great risk.

Oceans gathers some of the most insightful visionaries, explorers, and ocean lovers— marine biologists, politicians, environmentalists, fishermen, sportsmen, deep divers, and more—in a unique anthology, in which each speaks to a unique aspect of our world's most dimly understood dimension.

Jon Bowermaster is a filmmaker and the author of ten books. A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council, his 2007–2008 Antarctic expedition was the final in his OCEANS 8 project, which over the past decade has taken him and his teams around the world by sea kayak. When not on the sea, Bowermaster lives in Stone Ridge, New York.

Dedicated Book Web site
National television and radio publicity
Tie-in to film advertising and publicity campaign
Targeted promotion to partner organizations
On-line marketing
PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-158648-830-7
Pub date: 04/13/10
Price: $15.95/20.00 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
336 pages
Carton Quantity: 24
Environment, Film
Selling Territory: W
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