{"product_id":"a-year-with-the-seals-unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-seas-most-charismatic-and-controversial-creatures-hardcover","title":"A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlix Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSy Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnvironmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating the effects of their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as the subject of decades of study. Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems, and the changing climate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Morris also gets to know all of the competing interests in the intense debate about the newly recovered seal populations in our coastal waters, from local fishermen whose catch is often diminished by savvy seals, to tribes who once relied on seal-hunting for food, clothing, and medicine, to seal rescue workers and biologists, to surfers and swimmers now encountering seal-hunting sharks in coastal waters. \u003ci\u003eA Year with the Seals\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare look at what happens when conservation efforts actually work, and how human tampering with ecosystems continues to have unexpected consequences. But it's also a gripping adventure story of a journalist determined to understand seals and our relationship with them for herself.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlix Morris\u003c\/b\u003e is a science writer in midcoast Maine. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Down East Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and she has graduate degrees in science writing from MIT and global health from Johns Hopkins. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eA Year with the Seals\u003c\/i\u003e, is supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337218154861,"sku":"9781643755014","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/QCqaXcJMRi9781643755014.webp?v=1778926505","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/a-year-with-the-seals-unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-seas-most-charismatic-and-controversial-creatures-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}