Bill Streever

Aug 31, 2024 | adn.com | Nancy Lord |Bill Streever |Pegasus Books

“A Sea Full of Turtles: The Search for Optimism in an Epoch of Extinction”By Bill Streever; Pegasus Books, 2024; 256 pages; $28.95. Bill Streever, author of “Cold,” “Heat” and other science-related books, is a biologist who splits his time between Alaska and sailboat cruising in warmer waters. When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, he and his wife sequestered themselves in the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), the inland sea between Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and the mainland.

Apr 4, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Bill Streever |Amy Tan |Walter Isaacson

A hopeful consideration of the beauty and fate of wild sea turtles—and the natural world as a whole. An aquatic ecologist recounts his search for reasons for optimism in the face of looming extinction crises. When Covid-19 lockdowns closed seaports, Streever, author of Cold and Heat, and his wife, a marine biologist, were at sea aboard their restored sailboat Rocinante.

Dec 3, 2023 | emagazine.com | Bill Streever

Jul 6, 2023 | emagazine.com | Bill Streever

Climate change has drawn the attention of sentences, pages, and books beyond counting. Perhaps still more literature is needed. After all, some people—even a few who not only know how to read but who do read—have yet to be convinced about the science. Yet there remains for writers and publishers the challenge of word saturation and reader fatigue. Capture interest with yet another look at this graying topic? No easy task.