How the ocean has changed in David Attenborough's 99 years (it's not all bad)
In 2007 a group of Inuit hunters pulled an old harpoon out of a bow head whale they had caught. The harpoon looked strange, so they passed it to experts who dated it to about 1890.
For a bow head whale 120 is not that great an age. They can live to 200. The point of the story, and of this book, is that the whale would have lived through extraordinary environmental change.
David Attenborough, who is merely 99, has also lived through extraordinary environmental change. This book tells the story of the oceans in one lifetime and what science has discovered in that period. Co-written with the nature documentary maker Colin Butfield, it stands alongside their documentary Ocean, which had its premiere this
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