5/28/2023 0 Comments Fathoms by Rebecca GiggsI e-mailed Giggs last week to discuss Carson’s legacy, the future of the oceans, and the tragedy of beached whales.Īrianne Gonzalez: Are there specific natural history books or authors you encountered early in your development as a writer that you continue to return to? Her debut book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (2020), explored the lives of whales and the pollution of their habitats, andwon the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine and has been anthologized in The Best Australian Science Writing. Giggs is a science writer from Perth, Australia, who has written about, among other subjects, jellyfish swarms and the history of leeches. “But if Silent Spring is about rupture,” Giggs writes, “then the overarching project of Carson’s sea writing was to achieve a feat of connection-these are profoundly holistic books, tracing the bonds between natural forces and organisms.” While Carson was a marine biologist, she is best known for her landmark 1962 book, Silent Spring,which highlighted the environmental harms of pesticides-and, by extension, the insidious effects of humans on the planet. In the December 22, 2022, issue of the magazine, Rebecca Giggs reviews The Sea Trilogy, an omnibus edition of Rachel Carson’s books from the 1940s about ocean life.
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