Paradise is Underwater: Memoir of a Marine Biologist

摘要

Scoresby Shepherd is well known to all temperaternAustralian marine ecologists. He received AMSA’srnSilver Jubilee Award in 1997 for his achievementsrnin ecology, and an Officer in the Order of Australiarnaward in 2006 for services to the community. He isrnalso the most complex biologist I know, with the mostrnintegrity, as evidenced in this wide-ranging memoir.rnThe Greek Cynic Diogenes—who famously spentrnnights sleeping naked in a large barrel—pre-emptivelyrndescribed three of Scoresby’s many hats at the start ofrnhis quote: “When I look upon seamen, men of sciencernand philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings;rnwhen I look upon priests and prophets, nothing is asrncontemptible as man.”