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Their Fathers' Work: Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen by William Mccloskey Publisher Comments "No one writing today can match William McCloskey's knowledge of fishing or the breadth of his experience at sea. He is the writer of record on world fishing."--William Warner, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Beautiful Swimmers and Distant Waters What... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover 
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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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Ocean Yearbook #14: Ocean Yearbook, Volume 14 by Elisabeth M Borgese Publisher Comments For nearly twenty years, the Ocean Yearbook, published in cooperation with the International Ocean Institute, has provided a comprehensive review of issues and concerns affecting the world's oceans. Volume 14, a special edition to celebrate the Year of... (read more) List Price $117.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest To Predict Disasters (10 Edition) by Bruce B. Parker Publisher Comments The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Mysterious Manatees by Karen Glaser Publisher Comments "Mysterious Manatees" is a synergistic partnership between photographer Glaser and writer and scholar Reynolds. This union of science and art makes for a compelling exploration of the manatee through two independent essays--one textual, one visual--in a... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Living Off the Sea by Charlie White Synopsis Compiled from a lifetime of experience by best-selling author and expert angler Charlie White, here are ways to successfully harvest virtually every edible coastal species. Includes secrets on how and when to harvest shrimp, crabs, oysters, and many... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Slick of the Cricket by Russell Drumm Publisher Comments Russell Drumm, a local Long Island newspaper reporter, takes a five-day fishing trip aboard the charter boat Cricket II with Captain Frank Mundus, the godfather of Jaws. The trip's single charter is a Hawaiian developer and big-game hunter who has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters by Brad Matsen Publisher Comments From the super-heated decade when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, to the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the bucolic life of the open-ocean trawler, the true stories in "Fishing Up North" carry the flavor of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secrets of the Coral Reefs: Exploring the Underwater Wonders by Rick Sammon Publisher Comments This is the first book to provide an intimate portrait of the activity... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Whales and Dolphins in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book by James G Mead Publisher Comments How many fingers do whales have? Why do whales strand on beaches? Do dolphins protect humans from sharks? What does DNA reveal about the ancestry of cetaceans? This comprehensive book is a collective response to thousands of letters and phone calls... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments America's only female swordfish boat captain returns with this long- awaited follow-up to the bestselling The Hungry Ocean. After the exploits recounted in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean that made her a sensation, Linda Greenlaw took a ten- year... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Atlantic & Gulf coasts by William Amos 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 eastern shores, from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound [With CD (Audio)] by David Rothenberg Publisher Comments In Thousand Mile Song, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds. Interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music, Rothenberg... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth by Alanna Mitchell Publisher Comments A vast amount of plastic waste - twice the size of the United States - is floating in the Pacific Ocean. Welcome to the Great Pacific Garbage Path: the Plastic Soup. Plastic is an incredible material we can't do without, but it also... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sharks and Rays of the World by Doug Perrine Book News Annotation Photojournalist Perrine examines the bizarre evolutionary experiments that have characterized the development of sharks and rays, exploding the myth that they have not changed in over hundreds of millions of years. He explores their life history... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Whale Song: Journeys Into the Secret Lives of the North Atlantic Humpbacks by Andrew Stevenson Publisher Comments Bermuda is the only mid-ocean platform in the northern hemisphere providing a window into the migratory social behaviour of North Atlantic humpback whales. Four years ago, as Andrew Stevenson and his young daughter Elsa watched a forty-five-foot, forty... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sharks in Question (Smithsonian Answer Books) by Victor G Springer Publisher Comments Sharks in Question is a collective response to the thousands of questions about sharks received annually by scientists at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Written in a question-and-answer format accompanied by more than 100 photographs... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fish by Peter Moyle Publisher Comments Engagingly written, with both learning and humor, Fish bridges the gap between purely pictorial books and scholarly texts, and provides a succinct summary of fish biology and conservation for students and fish enthusiasts.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shark Trouble: True Stories and Lessons about the Sea by Peter Benchley Publisher Comments Master storyteller Peter Benchley combines high adventure with practical information in Shark Trouble, a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea. The bestselling author of Jaws, The Deep, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Underwater Eden: 365 Days by Jeff Rotman Publisher Comments UNDERWATER EDEN: 365 DAYS features spectacular undersea photography taken by Jeff Rotman, who has spent over thirty years photographing life in our planet's seas and oceans. The focus is on the exquisite beauty of the world's coral reefs and inhabitants.... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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