The Ocean's Menagerie - How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

Dr. Drew brings us a magnificent stable of marine critters , so beautiful as to be almost art, so astonishing in their lifestyles as to be almost superheroes . She delivers smooth prose like the incoming tide, building a depth of feeling and flow of discoveries to let us see, underneath every wave and in every sea, how thrillingly complex and stunningly lovely ocean wildlife can be>

About the author

Drew Harvell is Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. She is the author of Ocean Outbreak and A Sea of Glass which were, variously, the winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, recipient of the Rachel Carson Environmental Literature Award, one of the year’s best ‘Art Meets Science’ books by Smithsonian Magazine, Prose Award winner in Biological Sciences from the Association of American Publishers, and recipient of the Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award.

She has written for the New York Times, Seattle Times, The Hill, and CNN, and her work has been featured in the Atlantic, Guardian, Washington Post, Scientific American, Nature, and more. She also featured in the award-winning film, Fragile Legacy, and is currently a science adviser for Fabian Cousteau’s Underwater Space Station.

Product details

• Authors: Drew Harvell, Harvell Drew
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 23.04.2026
• EAN: 9781529967234
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-6723-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; popular science, SCIENCE / Natural History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Biodiversity, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Sea life & the seashore, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Marine Biology, Zoology: invertebrates, Biodiversity / Ecosystems