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Gordon Chaplin's father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who hitched a rich heiress and somehow transformed himself into the writer of a landmark scientific study, Fishes of the Bahamas, published by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. As a boy, the writer took part in collecting specimens for his father. Fifty years later, he was asked to become listed on a team from the same establishment studying the status of sea life in the Bahamian waters where he was raised, as measured against his father's benchmark. The first of the ocean changes provided in this eloquent reserve stems from local climate change and it is the drastic change of ocean life scheduled to global warming. The second is his father's miraculous change from presumed playboy into scientist. And the 3rd requires the author's own complicated marriage along with his parents and specifically his father, as he grew aged and assumed the part of the prodigal boy. Fifty years later, time for his childhood home, he delves into the mysteries of his father's life and the impossibility of ever before truly recovering days gone by, or ever going back home. Illustrated with gorgeous color plates from the initial Fishes of the Bahamas and having descriptions of superb undersea beauty and heartrending devastation, this is a position report on local climate change unlike every other, both a report from the field and an intensely personal reckoning.
