• Telling Our Way to the Sea

  • A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez
  • By: Aaron Hirsh
  • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
  • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Telling Our Way to the Sea

By: Aaron Hirsh
Narrated by: Aaron Abano
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A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience.

By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature - and with one another. When the biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny, along with their friend Graham Burnett, a historian of science, lead twelve college students to a remote fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, they come upon a bay of dazzling beauty and richness. But as the group pursues various threads of investigation - ecological and evolutionary studies of the sea, the desert, and their various species of animals and plants; the stories of local villagers; the journals of conquistadors and explorers - they recognize that the bay, spectacular and pristine though it seems, is but a ghost of what it once was. Life in the Sea of Cortez, they realize, has been reshaped by complex human ideas and decisions - the laws and economics of fishing, property, and water; the dreams of developers and the fantasies of tourists seeking the wild; even efforts to retrieve species from the brink of extinction - all of which have caused dramatic upheavals in the ecosystem. It is a painful realization, but the students discover a way forward. After weathering a hurricane and encountering a rare whale in its wake, they come to see that the bay’s best chance of recovery may in fact reside in our own human stories, which can weave a compelling memory of the place. Glimpsing the intricate and ever-shifting web of human connections with the Sea of Cortez, the students comprehend anew their own place in the natural world - suspended between past and future, teetering between abundance and loss.

©2013 Aaron Hirsh. Maps and illustrations copyright 2013 by Emiko Paul (P)2014 Audible Inc.

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Like being forced to watch someone masturbate, painfully egocentric and void of anything of interest to anyone other than the author.

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