A remarkable scientific meditation on spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated resources – the Atlantic Ocean. Not since Rachel Carson has a writer been able to give voice so compellingly to the ocean—its mythic history and its precarious future. Sailing through the rough, chilly Gulf of Maine, the rushing Gulf Stream, and the calm, weedy, Sargasso Sea, Deborah Cramer weaves the the research of physical oceanographers, geologists, biologists and chemists from both sides of the Atlantic into a brilliant tapestry that documents the changing rhythms of the sea, the intricate and fragile web of marine life, our many-faceted reliance on the ocean, and the threatened life of its inhabitants.