The Sound of the Sea: What Seashells Can Tell Us about the Past and Future

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year
A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year

A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that ＂will have you marveling at nature...Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation＂ (John Williams, New York Times Book Review).