An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life Of Seaweed

Author: Josie Iselin

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Price : $19.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781419711701
Publisher : ABRAMS
Imprint : ABRAMS
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Weight (g) : 0.386
Publication date : 01 March 2014
Dimensions : 178mm X 178mm X 20mm
Produced in : United States
RRP : 19.95
Availability date : 01 May 2014
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Author : Josie Iselin
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Bind : Hardback
Edition : 514
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Dewey classification : 779.34
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Pages : 144
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Illustrations : 100 full-colour illustrations
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Description

Josie Iselin celebrates the unexpected beauty of seaweed, an often overlooked but fundamental aspect of ocean life. Produced on a flatbed scanner, Iselin's vibrant portraits of ocean flora reveal the exquisite colour and extraordinary forms of more than two hundred specimens gathered from tidal pools along the California and Maine coasts. Her engaging text, which accompanies the images, blends personal observation and philosophical musings with scientific fact. Like her previous books, An Ocean Garden, The Secret Life of Seaweed is a poetic and compelling tribute to the natural world and the wonder it evokes.

Author description

Josie Iselin is the author of Abrams's Sea Glass Hearts, Beach Stones, Seashells, and Heart Stones, as well as Beach: A Book of Treasure. An artist who uses the flatbed scanner to create sculptural two-dimensional designs with three-dimensional objects, Iselin is especially drawn to the ocean shore.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.