by Michael Capuzzo  
Powells.com Staff Pick Michael Capuzzo has skillfully recreated the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore. Recounting in chilling detail the terrifying attacks, the ensuing panic, and the incredible hunt for the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $1.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Trevor Corson
Publisher Comments In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments In The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lucinda Wierenga Publisher Comments A crenellated turret here, a winding, arched staircase there, maybe even a giant turtle-fairy tale ideas are at the heart of every sandcastle. Summer after summer, children and adults alike make valiant efforts to infuse their sandy structures with such... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Lynne Cox
Powells.com Staff Pick You'd swear from the synopsis that it's fiction, grist for an after-school special or Disney's latest blockbuster. But, no, seventeen-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Susan Casey Publisher Comments A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators — and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them. Susan Casey was in her living room when she... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Stephanie Nowacek Publisher Comments Few animals on the planet create such feelings of excitement and curiosity as Dolphins. Maybe it is because they are so playful and intelligent, or because they allow us an occasional glimpse of life in the oceans. Discover the fascinating world of... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Valerie Ge Cooksley Publisher Comments What if there was a magic potion to help cure disease and lengthen life? And make you feel and look better in the process? Believe it or not, there is—and the place to find it is in the sea. Seaweed is eaten for its powerful nutritional benefits... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Ron Russo Synopsis These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.... (read more) Your Price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by R Tucker Abbot Synopsis A survey of the world of marine mollusks provides identification about the common shells of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Euell Gibbons Publisher Comments Euell Gibbons tells how to find marvelous food in every coastal area of North America.This book contains numerous drawings for identification and abounds in recipes and cooking tips from chowders and clambakes all the way to simple epicurean treats such... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Stilgoe Synopsis In this enchanting, handsomely illustrated book, John R. Stilgoe takes us on a tour of the seacoast, evoking its sights, sounds, and textures and showing how it illuminates issues of landscape and American culture.... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by David C Powell Publisher Comments This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium,... (read more) Your Price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by David R Montgomery Publisher Comments The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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