Floating Coast

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait is a 2019 book by author Bathsheba Demuth. Focused on the Beringia region, the author strings together subjects including coastal villages, whaling boats, Russian prisons, and American mining camps, in a story about devastating changes that ultimately dare the reader to imagine a better way forward.[1] It is organized into five sections (Sea, Shore, Land, Underground, and Ocean), each overlapping in time and taking the reader on a non-linear journey through the energy exchanges between people, wildlife, and natural resources.[2] In doing so, it tells the story of how people turned nature into profit--from sea otters and whales, to walruses, caribou, and arctic foxes, and eventually, to gold, tin, and oil--with little understanding of the ecosystem they were disrupting.[3]

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
AuthorBathsheba Demuth
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEnvironmental History
Published2019
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Media typePrint
Pages416
ISBN978-0-393-35832-2

Awards

Floating Coast was awarded the 2020 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH).[4] It was also named a top ten science book of 2019 by the journal Nature.[5]

References
  1. "'Floating Coast' Reads Like A Eulogy To The Natural World — With A Sliver Of Hope". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  2. Phillips, Julia (2019-08-27). "A View of the Bering Strait That's Anything but Narrow". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  3. Pinkham, Sophie (2019-11-07). "Blood on the Ice". ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  4. York, Carnegie Corporation of New. "Bathsheba Demuth". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  5. "Nature 's top ten books of 2019". Nature. 2019-12-16. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03876-8.


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