Winner - Pulitzer Prize for History<br /> Winner - Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction<br /> Finalist - National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)<br /> A <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book of the Year<br /> Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the <em>Washington Post</em>, NPR, <em>Library Journal</em>, and gCaptain<br /><em>Booklist</em> Editors' Choice (History)<br /> Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence <p>In this "cri de coeur about the Gulf's environmental ruin" (<em>New York Times</em>), "Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea" (front page, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>).</p>
