THE VOYAGE OF SABRA

AN ECOLOGICAL CRUISE THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN, WITH EXTRAS

By Michael L. Frankel

Very good in slightly shelf-worn dust-wrapper.

From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate tipped in.

1990 1st edition. 8vo (162 x 241mm). Pp256. B/w photographs, illustrations and maps. Cream-coloured paper-covered boards, black cloth spine titled in gilt.

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"This account of the six-month voyage of a junk-rigged schooner is a sea story with a fascinating difference. As director of the Center for Marine Conservation in Washington, D.C., the author's mission was to find out what man is doing to one of the world's great marine ecosystems. Was the new sanctuary for humpback whales near the Dominican Republic being respected by tankers? What was causing the sad decline in the sea turtle population? What was the effect of plastic pollution, the destruction of Mangrove forests, the vast trade in tortoiseshell and coral jewelry, over-fishing, anchoring in coral beds and bottom grass, and much more? It is a story of islands, their people, and the aquatic life around them - with intriguing digressions about the Sargasso Sea, the wonders of the Gulf Stream, the life cycles of whales, and more. Michael Frankel, a thoroughly engaging writer, leads his readers on a personal adventure and an excursion into a new science."

Contents include:- Preface; Breaking the ice - Washington, D.C. to the Dominican Republic; Many ways to shower - Puerto Rico to the Virgin Islands; Lorna Smith and the B.V.I. - The British Virgin Islands; They're rioting in Marigot - Virgin Islands to St. Kitts; Race week - Antigua to Guadeloupe; Turning the corner - Guadeloupe to Key West; No problemas - Key West to Havana and back; The conchs - Key West to Palm Beach; On being a mid-life vagabond - Florida to Chesapeake Bay; Concluding observations on the environment; More reading on the Caribbean. Appendixes: Back to the future - the modern Chinese junk rig; The Gulf Stream lady; The Sargasso Sea; Plastic debris and entanglement - more than a litter problem; Marine sanctuaries; Return of the prehistoric creatures.