Author Talk with Drew Harvell

Join San Juan Island Library for a special presentation by local author Drew Harvell about her latest book, The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life, an elegantly written exploration of the cutting-edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist.

Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms the size and shape of cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on earth, seeming to bend the rules of land-based biology. Although sometimes unseen in the deep, the spineless creatures contain 600 million years of adaptation to problems of disease, energy consumption, nutrition, and defense. The Ocean’s Menagerie is a tale of biological marvels, a story of a woman’s passionate connection to an adventurous career in science, and a call to arms to protect the world’s most ancient ecosystems.