Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents (Armchair Traveler)
by Erik Orsenna
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???I am not a scientist, ??? confesses ??rik Orsenna, ???I am a rover. A rover with a special weakness for the sort of trivial questions that leave not only parents but even experts fumbling around for an answer: Why is the night dark? Why does water wet?...
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Communicating with Orcas: The Whales' Perspective
by Mary J Getten
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Mary J. Getten, a naturalist and animal communicator, relates her conversations with the Orca whales in ?J-Pod, ? a family of whales that live in the waters off Washington State. Orcas are extremely intelligent with a complex language that scientists...
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Coast: From the Air
by Neil Oliver
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The British Isles are magnificent places, filled with endlessly fascinating sights, stories, and people, and they are defined and shaped by their coast. Hundreds of spectacular photographs in this book hint at the wonder of the ever-changing place where...
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Theatres of Glass: The Woman Who Brought the Sea to the City
by Rebecca Stott
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In the winter of 1847, the cloisters of Westminster Abbey enjoyed a sudden growth in popularity, though the visitors who streamed in were not of the usual kind. They were naturalists, come to see the very first marine aquarium in England, a large...
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Out of the Blue: A Journey Through the World's Oceans
by Paul Horsman
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This visually stunning celebration of the rich variety of ocean life captures the astonishing diversity of marine life, from the tiniest plants and plankton to the awe-inspiring giant squid and the blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived. Full...
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Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage
by Deborah Cramer
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In the course of an ocean voyage, Deborah Cramer documents the history and science of the Atlantic illuminating our multifaceted reliance on the sea, our betrayal of that bond, the changing landscape of the ocean floor and the threatened life of its...
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The Sea
by Gaetano Cafiero
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The Atlantic, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, the South Pacific-here are all the oceans in all colors and aspects: clear, tropical waters; turbulent open seas; immense plains of water seen from space; magical icy polar oceans; and delicate and frothy...
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The Shark Handbook: The Essential Guide for Understanding the Sharks of the World
by Greg Skomal
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Greg Skomal is one of the world’s leading shark experts: many thousands of viewers know him as the “Shark Guy” on Discovery Channel and he’s affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. So if you’re dreaming of...
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The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by David Arnold
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In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. The book is about Native and Euro-American fishermen, local fishing...
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Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide
by Glenn R Parsons
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Your guidebook for spotting and identifying 42 sharks and 25 skates and rays of the Gulf of...
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Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California (California Natural History Guides)
by David A Ebert
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The first comprehensive guide devoted exclusively to California's sharks, rays, and chimaeras in more than 50 years....
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Dolphins
by Tsuneo Nakamura
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Take a dive into the cool blue waters and swim along with the dolphins in these beautiful, intimate photographs of our favorite underwater mammal....
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Wave-Swept Shore: The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast
by Mimi Koehl
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This book describes for the general public the physical mechanics of survival in the strong waves and currents of the ocean shoreline....
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Jaws of Death
by Xavier Maniguet
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A study of shark biology, behaviour and attack, containing photographs of human injuries caused by sharks. Sharks were once revered as man's guardian at sea. Now they are more often the stuff of nightmares. This book documents the truth about sharks...
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