Coasts: Extraordinary Facts About Our Oceans

Coasts is a book of amazing facts about the oceans, including rising sea levels, tides, puffins, sea caves and sea otters. Our coasts are home to a huge variety of wildlife from whales and dolphins to rare orchids and undersea forests.

This sea is home to many marine creatures. Learn how to help native seals (keep yourself and dogs away from seals and pups).

Read our post on keeping dogs safe by the seaside.

Impress natural structures include dunes, saltmarshes along with manmade features – piers, lighthouses and holiday camps! The coast bursts with extraordinary energy from the weather.

Some of the questions answered in this book include:

Where were human footprints found (from 850,000 years ago?)
Where do minke whales return to the coast, each year?
Where is the coast’s largest gannet colony?
Where can you see the remains of a famous shipwreck, at low tide?
Do you know sand dunes can sing? Where can you hear them?
Where can you find a mermaid carved in a church? And why?

Ruth Binney has been studying plants and gardening all her life, and holds a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. She lives in Cardiff (Wales).

The High Seas is an important book, to uncover the truth behind exploitative fishing practices, the devastating impact of deep-sea mining and Silicon-Valley interventionists whose solutions to climate change are often radically irresponsible. The author is currently funded to report on ocean conservation, from her home in Ireland (by the sea).