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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    I first fell in love with the Great Barrier Reef on a hapless BBC reenactment that I describe briefly in the Prologue. This also proved to be one of the more traumatic times of my life, and I would like to thank my friends and colleagues Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Agnew, and Alex Cook for making it bearable, and so contributing over the long haul to the genesis of this book.
    Shaping, researching, and writing The Reef has proved to be another type of long haul, one in which I was always sustained by the keen perceptions, good humor, and pithy editing skills of my loving wife, Kate Fullagar. And, as with previous books, my hardworking agent Mary Cunnane has offered unstinting wisdom, support, and guidance, ably assisted by Kathleen Anderson in New York and Natasha Fairweather in London.
    My warmest thanks and admiration also go to senior science editor Amanda Moon and the wonderful team at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, including Daniel Gerstle and Laird Gallagher. It is a pure pleasure to work with such clever, professional, and caring people. The marketing and advertising of books and media has become an increasingly complex and demanding process these days, and for expertly managing this side of things I also thank Jeff Seroy.
    I owe so much to my longtime research assistant and adviser, Katherine Anderson, who has managed with her usual calm efficiency to give birth both to this book and to a gorgeous baby girl, Corisande.
    The writing and research of The Reef has been pursued in tandem with filming and other forms of digital production, with the aim that these media should feed off and fertilize one another. This fusion has been made possible by the friendship and brilliance of Mike Bluett of Northern Dogs Television and Digital. Working with him and learning from him has been one of the most energizing experiences of my late academic career. Among other things he has convinced me that digital and written histories can, and must, learn to work together in a creative symbiosis.
    Around us we also gathered a splendid team of digital experts and friends: Sam Wilson, film editor; James Stewart, sound engineer; Dean Miller, cameraman; and Andrew McCalman on video and stills, as well as Keren Moran and Noa Peer, Web creators extraordinaire of the Sydney digital company Spring in Alaska.
    Our visits to Reef sites in order to film introduced us to a range of special individuals for whom working to protect the Reef and its peoples remains urgent, unfinished business. Here I would like particularly to mention Alberta Hornsby, a Guugu Yimithirr knowledge custodian of Hopevale and Cooktown, and a historian of great passion, sagacity, and balance. I am deeply in her debt. At Dunk Island we were inspired by the local knowledge of a longtime