Reviews

In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves

Bill Streever

Little, Brown and Company, 2019; 320 pages; $28.00

Around the World in 80 Plants

Jonathan Drori

Laurence King Publishing, 2021; 216 pages; $24.95

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

Viking, 2021; 384 pages; $27.00

The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone

Lisa Harvey-Smith

Thames & Hudson, 2021; 192 pages; $19.95

The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean and the Looming Threat that Imperils It

Helen Scales

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021; 304 pages; $27.00

The Amur River: Between Russia and China

Colin Thubron

HarperCollins, 2021; 304 pages; $27.99

Declaring Disaster: Buffalo’s Blizzard of ’77 and the Creation of FEMA

Timothy W. Kneeland

Syracuse University Press, 2021; 221 pages; $24.95 (Paper)

The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

Cynthia Barnett

W.W. Norton & Company, 2021; 432 pages; $27.95

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