Cynthia Barnett

"A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves. Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love...

Weaving together science with the human human story of our ambition to control rain, Barnett tells the story of rain-- elemental, mysterious, precious, and destructive.