Nicholson, 1964)
Some plants and creatures
Ellis, Richard, Sea Dragons. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003)
Ellis, Richard, Encyclopedia of the Sea. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
Gibson, Ray, Benedict Hextall and Alex Rogers, Photographic Guide to the Sea and Shore Life of Britain and North-West Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Huxley, Anthony, Plant and Planet. (London: Allen Lane, 1974); revised edition (London: Pelican, 1978)
Jones, Steve, Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise. (New York: Little, Brown, 2007)
Kurlansky, Mark, Cod. (New York: Vintage, 1999)
Mech, L. David, The Wolf: The ecology and behaviour of an endangered species. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1970, 1981)
Mech, L. David, and Luigi Boitani, eds., Wolves: Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Tudge, Colin, The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter. (London: Penguin, 2006)
Warnings
Ellis, Richard, The Empty Ocean. (Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2003)
Harvey, Graham, The Killing of the Countryside. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997)
Pauly, Daniel, and Jay Maclean, In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003)
Rees, Martin, Our Final Hour. (New York: Basic Books, 2003)
Roberts, Callum, The Unnatural History of the Sea: The Past and Future of Humanity and Fishing. (London: Octopus, 2007)
And chaos . . .
Gleick, James, Chaos: Making a New Science. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; and various editions from then on)
Acknowledgements
I should like to thank Jamie Byng for his enthusiasm for this project and Francis Bickmore for editorial wisdom and patience. And I should like to thank Norah Perkins. My friend Jenny Uglow has shared ideas and a passion for the Norse stories. I am particularly indebted to my Danish translator, Claus Bech, who gave me Villy Sorensen’s Ragnarok in both Danish and English, and shared Danish names for fish. My German translator, Melanie Walz, also helped with German versions of the myths. My agent Deborah Rogers has been wonderfully enthusiastic and helpful, and Mohsen Shah, from Rogers Coleridge and White, has kept everything in more order than seemed possible. My husband, Peter Duffy, as always, listens to problems and excitements, and adds new ideas. My daughter, Miranda Duffy, who once spent time working with wolves, told me what to read, and how wolves behaved.
