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Exploring the Seashore in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon: A Guide to Shorebirds and Intertidal Plants and Animals by Gloria Snively Synopsis This easy-to-use guidebook, now in its 11th printing, enables anyone, from beginner to expert, to identify 285 shorebirds and intertidal plants and animals. Beautifully illustrated with 94 colour photographs.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Emerald Sea: Exploring the Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and by Diane Swanson Publisher Comments This photo-essay takes you to one of Earth's richest underwater habitats and describes its geological origins, unique plant life, and sea creatures.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Water's Edge: Beaches, Shorelines, and Riverbanks by Stephen Leatherman Publisher Comments The book guides the exploring naturalist to water's edge destinations throughout North America including Canada and Alaska. Main sections of the book cover three ocean coastlines--Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific; estuaries and wetlands; lakes... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard by Edward Bryant Publisher Comments In the past decade, more than ten major tsunami events have caused devastation and loss of life along the world's coastlines and evidence of past great tsunami, or \'mega-tsunami\', has recently been discovered along apparently aseismic and protected... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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Windward Road : Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores (79 Edition) by Archie Carr Publisher Comments The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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University of California Press/Monterey Bay Aquarium Series #2: A Living Bay: The Underwater World of Monterey Bay by Lovell Langstroth Publisher Comments Monterey Bay, on the central California coast, is unique in its spectacular underwater immensity. Here species found far to the north and south overlap in their respective ranges, offering a floral and faunal diversity without parallel in the North... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson Publisher Comments Rachel Carson is best known for Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. But while she was profoundly concerned about the environment as a whole, her deepest passion was for the sea, and many readers consider The Edge of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seashore Life (Golden Guide) by Golden Publisher Comments This compact guide will help you understand--and enjoy--the unique zone where land and ocean meet. It is a guide to: <BR>Seashells<BR>Sea Plants<BR>Shore Birds<BR>Jellyfish, Starfish, Sand Crabs<BR>... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chesapeake Bay: Nature of the Estuary: A Field Guide by Christopher P White Publisher Comments This book has become the definitive field guide to the Chesapeake. Flora and fauna descriptions are arranged according to the Bay's nine major habitats -- from freshwater wetlands to saltwater marshes. Accordingly, readers can easily refer to the habitat... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Student's Guide to the Seashore by John Fish Publisher Comments This unique, concise and beautifully illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price: $60.00 New - Trade Paper
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Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean: a Guide To Knowing and Growing Drought- and Salt-tolerant Plants by David W. Nellis Publisher Comments - For backyard gardeners or serious naturalists<BR>- A complete source for information about which plants grow best in nearshore environments<BR>- Characteristics of each plant, including form, flower and fruit date, geographic distribution... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline (Living with the Shore) by Wallace Kaufman Publisher Comments Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you&#8212;all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seaside Reader by Dery Bennett Publisher Comments Seacoasts have inspired writers everywhere, spawning an impressive and entertaining body of literature. Here is an anthology featuring writers as diverse as Jacques Cousteau and Norman Mailer, with selections on the places, people, and creatures that... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sand-tiquity by Malcolm Wells Publisher Comments The authors -- an architect, a sculptor, and a photographer show -- how you can duplicate the architectural glories of antiquity with just damp sand and a straight-edged stick of any kind -- a shingle, a ruler, or a piece of old dune fence. From simple... (read more) List Price $13.56 Your price: $12.03 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Pacific Coast (Audubon Guide) by And National Audubon Society Mcconnaughey Publisher Comments A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the birds, plants, fishes, insects, seashore creatures, and other natural wonders of North America's western shores, from Alaska to southern California.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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World's Beaches (11 Edition) by Orrin H. Pilkey Publisher Comments Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments--from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay by Tom Horton Publisher Comments In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an in-depth look at the Bay's vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been... (read more) List Price $17.60 Your price: $16.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell by Eric Enno Tamm Publisher Comments John Steinbeck immortalized Monterey's bohemian spirit in "Cannery Row," but the area's true lifeblood was his best friend and mentor, Ed Ricketts, the subject of this thoughtful and revealing portrait.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sandcastles: Great Projects: From Mermaids to Monuments by Patti Mitchell Publisher Comments Sandcastles is the ultimate guide to the ultimate summer pastime--playing in the sand. Featuring the wonderful photographs of Frankie Frankeny (Snowmen), Sandcastles includes over 30 sand sculptures from the whimsical to the majestic, complete with easy... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.49 Used - Spiral/comb
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Stellwagen: The Making and Unmaking of a National Marine Sanctuary by Peter Borrelli Publisher Comments The Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, only twenty-five miles east of Boston. The area's nutrient-rich waters attract a cornucopia of sea life--which in turn supports both recreational... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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