Marine ecotourism: between the devil and the deep blue sea

In many ways this book is our response to the powerful ‘tug of the tide’ so graphically described in Trevor Norton’s delightful and informative evocation of the marine realm in Under Water To Get Out Of The Rain, subtitled ‘A love affair with the sea’ (Norton, 2005). It is, perhaps, no coincidence that: both authors hail from an island state where nowhere is more than 100 km from the sea and where the
shipping forecast is a national institution (Connelly, 2004); the elder of us spent the first 18 years of her life in what was then a small coastal town in the south of England; the younger has spent the most recent part of his on one of the most famous coasts in the world with its proliferation of experiences on and under the sea; with proximate Norwegian lineage, the blood of the Vikings courses strongly through our veins; and we have had the privilege of total immersion (sometimes quite literally) in the marine environment of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, on innumerable occasions
over most of our lives.

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