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by Rick M Harbo  Publisher Comments This full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters, beachcombers, and snorkellers of every experience level. The concise handbook is a ready... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Harald A Rehder Publisher Comments The essential book for beach-combers and divers, this guide explores more than 705 seashells, living mollusks, abalone, periwinkles, conchs, limpets, oysters, clams, mussels, and cockles found on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of North America... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
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by Randall R. Reeves and Brent S. Stewart and Phillip J. Clapham and James A. Powell Publisher Comments This guide covers 120 species of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions. Information about each species covers every aspect of the animal's anatomy, life cycle, and behavior. This new guide is certain to become both an indispensable source of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Warren Zeiller Publisher Comments As diver, announcer, trainer and eventual manager of the Miami Seaquarium, Warren Zeiller knows the unique creatures that inhabit the waters off Florida. Most unusual of all is the sea cow, or manatee. A warm blooded, plant eating, Cadillac-sized gentle... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Norman John Berrill Publisher Comments Comprehensive compendium of facts about dolphins, sea snails, sponges, starfish, fishes, shore birds, many other creatures of the strand. Detailed coverage of appearance, breeding, growth, feeding, much more. 167 drawings. 16 page photo-section. 1,106... (read more) Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Kunzig Publisher Comments ""The Restless Sea" immediately surfaces at the top of the list of journalistic treatments of oceanography. . . .The book opened my eyes to numerous wonders".--Richard Strickland, "American Scientist" 8 pages of color and 20 b&w illustrations.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Bestselling author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator on Earth--the legendary great white shark. On a trek that lasts 17 months and takes him from the Caribbean to the whaling grounds off South Africa... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $1.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Carwardine Publisher Comments Hundreds of thousands of people have an intentional encounter with sharks every year, and shark-watching has become a multi-million dollar business. The ultimate shark-watcher's guide, this comprehensive and ground-breaking book is essential reading for... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scubazoo Publisher Comments Coral reefs are often called "the rainforests of the sea" because of the quantity and diversity of life they support, and because they are highly sensitive and threatened ecosystems. Building on the success of DK's Rainforest, this unique pictorial... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carl Safina Publisher Comments Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Reynolds Publisher Comments Manatees and Dugongs fully documents the natural history of Sirenia, the order of aquatic mammals that includes manatees of the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Amazon, as well as the Indo-Pacific dugong.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Helvarg Publisher Comments A panoramic, highly readable report on the state of America's coastlines and the ocean wilderness off our shores, by a veteran environmental journalist. Gives the inside scoop on issues that have become major talking points for Americans since the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (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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by Stewart T Schultz Publisher Comments This fascinating book provides a rich synthesis of geology, climatology, and oceanography as the backdrop for an examination of the animal and plant communities of the West Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cape Flattery. It provides insight into the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Biliana Cicin Sain Publisher Comments The United States is about to embark on the most thorough reconsideration of its ocean policy in more than three decades. With 1998 designated as the International Year of the Ocean by the United Nations, and with both the executive branch and the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $13.50 (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 Kathleen Crane Publisher Comments Sea Legsis the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Sprung Publisher Comments Defines corals and distinguishes them from similar antipatharians, hydrozoans, zoanthids, and corallimorpharia. Shows many rare and unusual forms, including species new to science that have never been depicted in any other book.<P>Range extensions:... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by R Tucker Abbott Publisher Comments Scoop up plentiful Cockles on Eastern beaches. Spy a fabulous Emperor Helmet in Southern Florida. Find a Red Chiton on the Pacific shore. The coasts of North America yield a wondrous variety of shells, from the majestic Conch to tiny Bittium. This... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Howard Publisher Comments Of all the mammals on earth, none has inspired our affection as much as the dolphin. Fascinated by these creatures of myth, magic, and history, we have longed to penetrate the mystery that surrounds them and thrilled to the possibility of communicating... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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