Over the course of a year, it follows those who live in one of the most extraordinary places on the planet, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where man meets wild and nature calls the shots. It's high stakes and high drama across our greatest marine wilderness.

-- A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” ( -- Fathoms: The World in the WhaleNew York Times In Fathoms With the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (The New Yorker).

Oceanography and art collide in this visual celebration of humans' relationship with the marine world. From early nautical cartography, scientific illustrations and astounding maps of the ocean floor to ancient Roman mosaics, Japanese woodblock prints and pop-culture ephemera Ocean takes readers across continents and cultures, spanning more than 3,000 years of history. Vivid, full-page images reveal prehistoric marine creatures and fossils, mysterious...

As a queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea--particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature, including: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated...

The tide has turned, and people now hold Earth's life-giving waters in their hands. In this visually stunning book, a gifted science writer often compared to Rachel Carson explains why people's lives--more than ever--depend on the sea. 300 photographs.

An insider's description of the comprehensive Census of Marine Life and what it reveals about a seriously threatened ecosystem.