THE OIL MAN AND THE SEA: A MODERN MISADVENTURE ON THE PACIFIC TANKER ROUTE

Book ID/图书代码： 00110915B77248

English Summary/英文概要： A sailing trip along the proposed Northern Gateway marine route with a fresh new voice in non-fiction. With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British Columbia down the wild Pacific Coast. This region is home to the largest tract of temperate rainforest on earth, First Nations who have lived there for millennia, and some of the world’s most biodiverse waters--one spill is all it will take to erase ten thousand years of evolution. Arno Kopecky and his companions travel aboard a forty-one-foot sailboat exploring the pristine route--a profoundly volatile marine environment that registered 1,275 marine vessel incidents--mechanical failures, collisions, explosions, groundings, and sinkings--between 1999 and 2009 alone. Neither Kopecky nor the boat’s owner have ever sailed before, yet they brave these waters alone when their captain leaves them part way through the journey. Written with Kopecky’s quick humor and deft touch, this is a rich evocation of a mythic place and the ecology, culture, and history of a legendary region with a knife at its throat.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这部纪实小说发出了关于被推荐的“北方门户”航行之旅的新声音。石油和天然气巨头安桥公司的北部门户方案即将受到批准，超级油轮装载着二百万桶石油可能很快会在北不列颠哥伦比亚下的太平洋海岸定期来往。这一地区是地球上最大的温带雨林之家，第一代人类在那里生活了几千年，世界上一些生物多样性最丰富的海域之一—一点点泄漏就会抹去一万年的进化。阿尔诺•寇佩琪和同伴航行一四零一英尺探索原始路线—有1275船舶发生过事故的极度反覆无常的海洋环境----1999和2009之间发生的--机械故障，碰撞，爆炸，搁浅，沉没。无论是寇佩琪还是曾经航行过的船主，他们勇敢地航行在这片海域上，他们的船长在半路上撤离让他们自己航行。寇佩琪用幽默和灵巧的笔触撰写，关于一个神秘的地方的丰富信息，生态，文化，和对这传奇地区一针见血的历史。（YYW）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 阿尔诺•寇佩琪是新闻记者和旅行作家，他的文章曾在《海象》，《外交政策》，《环球邮报》，《马伊》，《麦克莱恩》，《这》，《肯尼亚国家日报》和其他出版物上刊登过。他的工作重点是人权、环境和全球化。寇佩琪写过墨西哥市民起义，缅甸气旋影响，冰岛尝试成为地球上第一个无油国，津巴布韦三十年的独裁统治，和肯尼亚选举暴力。他生活在斯阔米什。

Arno Kopecky is a journalist and travel writer whose dispatches have appeared in The Walrus, Foreign Policy, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, the Tyee, Kenya’s Daily Nation and other publications. His work focuses on human rights, the environment, and globalization. Kopecky has covered civil uprisings in Mexico, cyclones in Burma, Iceland’s attempt to become the first oil-free nation on earth, Zimbabwe’s thirty-year dictatorship, and election violence in Kenya. He lives in Squamish, BC.

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