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by Mark Kurlansky  Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nrc Publisher Comments The collapse of cod, flounder, and haddock fish stocks in the Northeast United States has caused widespread concern among managers and fishers in the United States and Canada. The diminishing stocks have forced managers to take strict regulatory measures.... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice Jane Lippson Publisher Comments Published in 1984, the first edition of Life in the Chesapeake Bay became an instant classic, providing fascinating insights into some of the more than two thousand plants and animals that make their home in America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay.... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry G Ward Publisher Comments This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation's coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (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 Robert D Ballard Publisher Comments Ballard's perspective on specific events in the history of deep-sea explorations is fresh and exciting. This is an important record of the remarkable progression in technology from extremely primitive underwater diving bells to a multiplicity of manned... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $7.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John E Reynolds Publisher Comments This identification guide and general reference also provides steps on how to protect these popular marine mammals and their environment when diving, fishing, boating, etc.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia A Earle Publisher Comments Discover the best kept secrets of our natural heritage, the 12 national sanctuaries created to safeguard pristine marine environments, protect precious oceanic species and historic sites, and provide a dramatic, unforgettably magical realm beneath the... (read more) List Price $40.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Helvarg Publisher Comments A fascinating account of America's oceans and ocean politics, Blue Frontier explores the impact of history, commerce, and policy on marine life -- and by extension all life on earth. From the legacy of navy-funded research and development since World War... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachel Carson Publisher Comments In her luminous descriptions of intertidal life, Carson shows her remarkable ability to describe the beauties of science and the natural world.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (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 $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David C Powell Publisher Comments This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium,... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas P. Peschak Publisher Comments Southern Africa's coast is the meeting place of two ocean giants - the Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean and the Agulhas of the Indian Ocean. They clash fiercely at the continent's southern tip, dividing the region into two contrasting marine... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $20.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephan Gollasch Publisher Comments Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural dispersal, as well as for shipping-mediated transport. The introduction of alien species has proved to be one of the most... (read more) List Price $159.00 Your price $68.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated and definitive work on the great white shark.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Farley Mowat Publisher Comments With the dedicated reasearch and highly readable prose that are his hallmarks, Farley Mowat painstakingly recounts the grim fate of the wildlife of the North Atlantic seaboard after the arrival of European man. This "howl of outrage" (Kirkus) chronicles... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kieran Mulvaney Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-329) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brad Matsen Publisher Comments In Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen brings to vivid life the famous deep-sea expeditions of Otis Barton and William Beebe. At a time when no one had traveled deeper than a few hundred feet, they took the world to a half mile down... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sam Hinton Publisher Comments The dry land is one world and the wet sea is another, but the line separating them is ever-changing. Sam Hinton provides an introduction to this fascinating zone and its contiguous waters and to some of the many creatures who make the southern California... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Curtis J Badger Publisher Comments -- Expert advice on how to bring home a bounty<BR>-- Types of clams described and which make the best eating<BR>-- Natural history details of help to any clammer<P>This practical, illustrated how-to book describes the best ways to clam,... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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