How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

本书每篇文章都介绍了这样一种生物：在看守自己的蛋时饿死的母章鱼，迁移路线被污染和水坝破坏的中国鲟鱼，怪异的波比特虫（以罗蕾娜命名），以及其他潜伏在深海中的不可思议的生物，远远低于光线到达的地方。英布勒发现，在海洋中可以找到一些最激进的家庭、社区和关怀模式，从既是单个生物体又是克隆体殖民地的胶状链，到不需要太阳的深海螃蟹，而是由地球核心跳动的化学物质和热量滋养。这本书探讨了适应、生存、性和关怀的主题，并将海洋生物学的奇迹与他们自己的家庭、关系和成长的故事交织在一起，这本书邀请我们为我们的生活方式设想更狂野、更伟大和更丰富的可能性。

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live. 

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