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Pacific Seaweeds: A Guide to Common Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast |
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Pacific Seaweeds: A Guide to Common Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast, by Louis Druehl, published by Harbour Publishing, 2001 (190 pp. +78 colour photos, PB, $24.95). Pacific Seaweeds is a not just a field guide to common seaweeds in the cold temperate region of the Pacific Coast. It’s an eclectic mix of biology, history, humour, and epicurean delights—a rare find in a scientific reference.
Druehl has taught marine botany at Simon Fraser University for 30 years and is also president of Canadian Kelp Resources Ltd., a company that produces sea vegetables.
The field guide component of the book includes a thumbnail guide, colour pictures, and descriptions for seaweed identification. In addition, Pacific Seaweeds provides information about algal biology, ecology, conservation, use and cultivation as well as nutritional information and recipes.
For the beachcomber and boater, the guide provides oodles of information and trivia, woven together with Druehl's offbeat sense of humour—a cheeky sense of fun that might interrupt a serious discussion of bull kelp (Nereocystis ) to point out that it resembles, more than anything, “a very large gothic brown onion of extraterrestrial origin.”
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