nWinner - Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction nFinalist - National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) nA New York Times Notable Book of the Year n Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain nBooklist Editors Choice (History) n Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence nIn this cri de coeur about the Gulfs environmental ruin (New York Times), Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea (front page, New York Times Book Review).n