Audrey D. Benedict

When someone asks why I live on the Salish Sea, I can simply hand them a copy of this beautiful book.

Having grown up in the Puget Sound and studied marine biology there in college, as well, this was a fascinating book. I like the new name for the combination of all the inland coastal waters, the Salish Sea, as it hearkens back to the first inhabitants of the area. The photography is stunning and there is a lot of good information about the ecology of the Salish Sea.