Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them.
They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. A Science Friday Best Science Book of the YearĪ Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearĪ Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the YearĪ stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review).
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