An exquisitely designed book with beautiful and haunting images of a future in progress. Aside from describing the usual existential threats facing islands (sea level rise, aquifer salination, subsidence etc), this book has the heart to acknowledge that human beings are a mobile species and that island cultures will inevitably move and outlive the atolls and archipelagos from which they originated. Each chapter includes science and geology and climatology and ends with a poem written by a resident of that place, often in the local language with English translation.
Dr. Gerhardt is the kind of writer that seems to take genuine joy as well as responsibility in her weaving together of science and the humanities.
An exquisitely designed book with beautiful and haunting images of a future in progress. Aside from describing the usual existential threats facing islands (sea level rise, aquifer salination, subsidence etc), this book has the heart to acknowledge that human beings are a mobile species and that island cultures will inevitably move and outlive the atolls and archipelagos from which they originated. Each chapter includes science and geology and climatology and ends with a poem written by a resident of that place, often in the local language with English translation.
Dr. Gerhardt is the kind of writer that seems to take genuine joy as well as responsibility in her weaving together of science and the humanities.
