author : Helen Czerski

Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told – that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather, and human history and culture.

In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the ocean’s myriad messengers, passengers and voyagers, by way of vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls, which all have their place in its complex, interlinked system.

Timely, elegant and passionately argued, Blue Machine presents a fresh perspective on what it means to be a citizen of an ocean planet, showing the thrilling extent to which we are at the mercy of this great engine.