Laura Trethewey is an award-winning ocean and environmental journalist and author of The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories of a Changing Sea. Her writing has appeared in the The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Courrier International, The Guardian, The Walrus, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Hakai Magazine, and Canadian Geographic. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and won Canada's Writers' Trust Rising Star Award in 2020.
"A riveting ocean of a book, packed with gripping adventures,
high-stakes exploration and political intrigue. Trethewey leads us
to the bottom of the sea and deftly shows why it all matters so
much." — Helen Scales, author of The Brilliant Abyss
"An engrossing look at deep-sea exploration. Essential reading for
environmentalists, armchair adventure divers, and those who care
about the world’s oceans." — Kirkus (Starred Review)
"There is no doubt in my mind that the ocean plays the most massive
role in our past, present, and future—from transportation to planet
health to long term sustainability. The Deepest
Map shines a light on this massive yet ever-changing force and
helps bring into focus so many unanswered questions, while giving
us a beautiful reminder of how important it is to educate and
protect these waters to the best of our abilities."
— Garrett McNamara, Big Wave surfer, co-creator of the documentary
series 100 Foot Wave and author of Hound of the
Sea
"There is no doubt in my mind that the ocean plays the most massive
role in our past, present, and future—from transportation to planet
health to long term sustainability. The Deepest
Map shines a light on this massive yet ever-changing force and
helps bring into focus so many unanswered questions, while giving
us a beautiful reminder of how important it is to educate and
protect these waters to the best of our abilities."
— Garrett McNamara, Big Wave surfer, co-creator of the documentary
series 100 Foot Wave and author of Hound of the
Sea
"The Deepest Map is a fascinating, poetic love letter to our
planet and to the scientists and explorers risking their lives to
understand its unconscious. With exhaustive reporting, Trethewey
takes us on an awe-inspiring and humbling adventure that makes us
realize how much we still have to learn about our home." — Jaimal
Yogis, author of All Our Waves Are Water
“[The] questions Trethewey encourages us to ponder in The
Deepest Map are not centered around whether to map and explore
the deep sea, they’re about how that exploration happens, who
controls it, and what it leaves behind. The deep sea could
become our next Amazon…heavily plundered and degraded. Or it could
become our next Antarctica, governed by international treaties that
protect it in the name of science. Trethewey’s thorough accounting
of our knowledge of and relationship to this ‘last truly mysterious
place on Earth’ can only help us along the right path.” — Atlantic
Books Review
"Wow, what a great adventure story. Shipwrecks, octopus
gardens, coral reefs as tall as the Empire State Building, 11,000
year-old sponges, deep sea robots—it’s a trip to another world,
right here on Earth. This is not just a book about the epic
quest to map the ocean floor, but an exploration of the mysteries
and life of a planet we hardly know. The Deepest Map is one of
those rare books that will change the way you see our world." —
Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come
"Wow, what a great adventure story. Shipwrecks, octopus
gardens, coral reefs as tall as the Empire State Building, 11,000
year-old sponges, deep sea robots—it’s a trip to another world,
right here on Earth. This is not just a book about the epic
quest to map the ocean floor, but an exploration of the mysteries
and life of a planet we hardly know. The Deepest Map is one of
those rare books that will change the way you see our world." —
Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come
"Trethewey’s sharp eye for character brings out the humanity in the
marine moonshot. It’s worth exploring." — Publishers Weekly
"A riveting ocean of a book, packed with gripping adventures,
high-stakes exploration and political intrigue. Trethewey leads us
to the bottom of the sea and deftly shows why it all matters so
much." — Helen Scales, author of The Brilliant Abyss
"Trethewey’s sharp eye for character brings out the humanity in the
marine moonshot. It’s worth exploring." — Publishers Weekly
"The Deepest Map is a fascinating, poetic love letter to our
planet and to the scientists and explorers risking their lives to
understand its unconscious. With exhaustive reporting, Trethewey
takes us on an awe-inspiring and humbling adventure that makes us
realize how much we still have to learn about our home." — Jaimal
Yogis, author of All Our Waves Are Water
"This adventure on the high seas follows scientific explorers who
are charting the seafloor in exquisite detail. But as with any
exploration of uncharted territory, mapping the bottom of the
ocean risks spoiling a place largely untouched by humans." —
Science News Magazine
"This adventure on the high seas follows scientific explorers who
are charting the seafloor in exquisite detail. But as with any
exploration of uncharted territory, mapping the bottom of the
ocean risks spoiling a place largely untouched by humans." —
Science News Magazine
"A gripping, timely account of the world’s push—by inventors,
scientists, business people and government—to map the ocean’s
floor." — The Globe and Mail
"A gripping, timely account of the world’s push—by inventors,
scientists, business people and government—to map the ocean’s
floor." — The Globe and Mail
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