You thought the climate was the problem? Actually, it’s the ocean. Read for the first time how the global ocean – 99 per cent of the planet’s living space – is undergoing vast chemical changes at the hand of man and why that matters. While tremendous attention and money have been devoted to saving animals and plants on land, the deterioration of the oceans has been going on in secret, and scientists are just beginning to understand the extent of the crisis. Seasick is the first comprehensive account which pieces together the latest discoveries, theories and findings. What are we doing to the seas? What does this mean to the future of life on earth? Seasick will explain. Written by a journalist who has traveled around the world to provide the big picture, this book will forever change the way you see your planet. This is ecology at its best, as well as a thrilling adventure story.

An award-winning journalist, Alanna Mitchell is the author of Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots, which has won international acclaim and published in the US, Canada and the UK (Transworld).

Seasick is an adventure tale with scientists as the heroes.  With wit, style and a powerful sense of history it takes us on a wonderful fact-finding tour beneath the surface of Earth’s largest habitat.  It could help change the way we think about our relationship with the seas. BBC Focus Magazine

"The net [Mitchell] has sewn in this book, connecting disparate scientists and compiling isolated strands of evidence, is an important one" Alistair Brown, Green World

"Don't be seduced by Mitchell's easy style. This is an important book about the state of two thirds of our planet." New Scientist

"It is often said that our oceans are less understood than the surface of the moon. Alanna Mitchell’s informative and deeply moving book gives a wonderful portrait of a global marine ecosystem that desperately needs both greater popular understanding and international protection against looming catastrophe." Mark Lynas, Environmentalist and author of 'Six Degrees'

"Alanna Mitchell sails, snorkels and dog-paddles the oceans with swashbuckling scientists who are growing very scared at the crisis in the deeps, and what it means for us land-lubbers. Bottom line: it looks like the planet has got the bends." Fred Pearce, environment writer and author of 'Confessions of an Eco Sinner'