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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 
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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) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Rachel Carson Publisher Comments Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us was a phenomenal success. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained on top for... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eschmeyer H Hammann Publisher Comments 'More than 600 species are described in detail, with more than 525 illustrations. This is the guide for quick, reliable identification of fishes that you\'ll encounter while fishing, snorkeling, diving, or even strolling along a Pacific Coast beach.'... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alessa De Maddalena Synopsis Those who think of sharks as something only found in tropical waters will be surprised to learn that there are 18 species of sharks in the cool waters of the Pacific Northwest, from the 27-inch brown catshark to the 39-foot basking shark.< br> <... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Evelyn Mcconnaughey Synopsis -- Harvesting Guide & Cookbook. Evelyn McConnaughey is author of this complete guide to foraging and preparing highly nutritious sea vegetables. Classification, where they grow, harvesting, storage, tables of nutritional equivalents, protein comparisons,... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence, Architeuthis has remained a mystery.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Osha Gray Davidson Publisher Comments Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, sea... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas H. Chadwick Publisher Comments The largest creatures ever to inhabit the Earth, whales have long inspired awe in humans. But because they spend virtually all of their time beneath the ocean surface, little has been known about their lives. Now, with advances in technology, new facts... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claire Nouvian
Powells.com Staff Pick The Deep is one of the most beautiful and bizarre books I've ever seen. You will not be able to put it down, and none of your friends will be able to resist picking it up. Recommended by Jill, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John M Baxter Publisher Comments This top-selling series introduces the wild creatures of the world and examines the natural world. Good general introductions for ages 10+, these volumes contain the knowledge, personal experiences, and research of leading naturalists and scientists... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Marriott Publisher Comments Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps, Edward Marriott... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Natalie Fobes Synopsis When I was young, I lived beside a wild river. The river was always going somewhere, and I never tired of watching it. My mother told me the river began in the mountains to the north and ended in the ocean to the west. But this I had never seen. Rivers... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ocean Studies Board Synopsis During recent years, large-scale investigations into global climate change and other highly visible issues have taken the lion's share of declining research funds. At the same time, funding for basic research in such core disciplines as physical... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Herbert Boschung Publisher Comments This delightful field guide features 585 full-color photographs of marine and freshwater fishes, 30 photographs and 45 paintings of whales, dolphins, and porpoises, and 24 pictures of freshwater and saltwater habitats. 529 species are described in... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
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