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The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

by Brian Fagan

Bloomsbury USA. 2013. 288p. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9781608196920. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781608196951.

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Beginning with the Ice Age, Fagan explores how the fluctuation in sea levels over time has impacted societies in such places as Bangladesh, Japan, and the Mediterranean. Past events set the context for the current rise in sea levels as ice sheets melt and what that foreshadows as populations are forced to migrate when the land they previously occupied disappears underwater. (LJ 4/15/13)

Reviewed by John Burch , Jun 01, 2015

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