FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology history and
science in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands the
mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.' Tristan Gooley author of How to Read Water
'Blue Machine is quite simply one of the best books I have ever read.' Dr George McGavin
zoologist entomologist and broadcaster 'A fascinating dive into the essential engine that
drives our world. Czerski brings the oceans alive with compelling stories that masterfully
navigate this most complex system.'Gaia Vince science journalist broadcaster and author of
Nomad Century All of the Earth's ocean from the equator to the poles is a single engine
powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that
of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does
why it works and the many ways it has influenced animals weather and human history & culture.
In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet physicist
Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine examining the
messengers passengers and voyagers that live in it travel over it and survive because of it.
From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent
residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years she
explains the vast currents invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their
place in the ocean's complex interlinked system. Timely elegant and passionately argued Blue
Machine presents a fresh perspective on what it means to be a citizen of an ocean planet. The
understanding it offers is crucial to our future. Drawing on years of experience at the
forefront of marine science Helen Czerski captures the magnitude and subtlety of Earth's
defining feature showing us the thrilling extent to which we are at the mercy of this great
engine.
