{"id":1817210,"date":"2023-07-11T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817210"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:31:21","slug":"the-deepest-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/the-deepest-map\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deepest Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookOut today from HarperCollins<\/a> (and Goose Lane<\/a> in Canada): The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World\u2019s Oceans<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Laura Trethewey<\/a>. \u201cScientists, investors, militaries, and private explorers are competing in this epic venture to obtain an accurate reading of this vast terrain and understand its contours and environment. In The Deepest Map<\/em>, Laura Trethewey chronicles this race to the bottom. Following global efforts around the world, she documents Inuit-led crowdsourced mapping in the Arctic as climate change alters the landscape, a Texas millionaire\u2019s efforts to become the first man to dive to the deepest point in each ocean, and the increasingly fraught question of whether and how to mine the deep sea.\u201d Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>), Bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out today from HarperCollins (and Goose Lane in Canada): The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World\u2019s Oceans by Laura Trethewey. \u201cScientists, investors, militaries, and private explorers are competing in this epic venture… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1817210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-oceans","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1821821,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/12\/2023-holiday-gift-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817210,"position":0},"title":"2023 Holiday Gift Guide","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 December 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s the 2023 iteration of my annual gift guide. 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