Wild Sea – review quotes from the University of Chicago Press website
May 30, 2021
Wild Sea shortlisted for 2019 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book prize
February 24, 2021
The Australian Association for Maritime History has announced the winner of the 2019 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book prize, and Wild Sea was on the shortlist – yay!
All at sea: a review in History Today
February 19, 2021
Just discovered this wonderful review of Wild Sea by Jean McNicol published in History Today (UK), Vol. 69 Issue 9, September 2019. The reviewer is the author of Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir (ECW, 2016).
Building the blue economy
January 31, 2021
Delighted to have contributed to Narissa Bax, Camilla Novaglio, Kimberley H Maxwell, et al, ‘Ocean resource use: building the blue economy’, a multi-disciplinary paper developed as part of the Future Seas project (www.futureseas2030.org). It has been accepted for publication in the Future Seas special issue in Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries to be published … More Building the blue economy
ANU research roadshow: The history and legacies of environmental violence
November 27, 2020
A great day of presentations from a wide range of perspectives on the theme of environmental violence. Here’s a link to my presentation Ice Memory – exploring the human and natural histories of sea ice: https://youtu.be/1oGo7ax9vxohttps://www.google.com.au/url?
New review of Wild Sea
September 28, 2020
Review: McCann “The Southern Ocean” 021 Sep 2020Australia, Book Reviews, Environmental History, Ocean history, Ocean Science, Oceanography and environmental monitoring, Polynesia, South Atlantic, South Pacificby Meaghan Walker Joy McCann. Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. University of Chicago Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780226622385, Hardback $28.00USD, 256 pages, 9 colour plates, 8 halftones, and 8 maps. By Erin Becker In Wild Sea: A History of the … More New review of Wild Sea
‘A view to krill: the first history of the most remote ocean’
July 11, 2020
Review by Lucy Jakub for Harper’s Magazine, March 2020 Discussed in this essay: Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean, by Joy McCann. University of Chicago Press. 256 pages. $28.The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World, by Stephen Nicol. Island Press. 216 pages. $30.Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and … More ‘A view to krill: the first history of the most remote ocean’
The Southern Ocean comes to the 2019 London Book Fair
July 11, 2020
University of Chicago Press stand at the London Book Fair
ACT Book of the Year 2019
January 25, 2020
Feeling very honoured to have Wild Sea shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year 2019 and to receive a ‘Highly Commended’ award at the announcement by the ACT Minister for Arts, Creative Industries and Cultural Events on 6 February.
