An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur
fellow Carl Safina.
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl
Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to
the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to
Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to
the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is
melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic
Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding
penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as
fish graze the corals algae-free. "Each time science tightens a coil in
the slack of our understanding," Safina writes, "it elaborates its
fundamental discovery: connection. "He shows how problems of the
environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and
our prospects for peace. In Safina's hands, nature's continuous renewal
points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how
our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.
