Oceans category: 226 books
Commercial Fishing in Alaska
The Prospective Deckhand's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
This Prospective Guide isn’t here to hold your hand and walk you step-by-step through your adventure. Because that’s not adventure. No, this guide is here to offer some perspective. To share some tales. To offer a few opinions. To help you decide on which path to take. But the joy remains in...
Time Bandit
Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon...
by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1997
A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.
The Way of a Ship
A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships,"...
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Zane Grey fished up to 300 days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really BIG fish—the giants of the sea. Blue fin tuna are (even today) still sometimes pursued with harpoons! There's the story of a swordfish that was hooked...
by Ernst Haeckel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the...
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves...
by Iain McCalman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier,...
A Sense of the Sea
Our View of the Sea and How We Got It
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
"What does the ocean mean to people - to individuals and to society as a whole? That is the question Brian Whitehouse answers in his first book, A Sense of the Sea. An avid sailor, oceanographer, and former Executive Director of the influential Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing, Dr. Whitehouse...
The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In...
The Wave Watcher's Companion
Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Get ready for a global journey like none other-a passionate enthusiast's exploration of waves that begins with a massive surfable cloud and ends with the majestic Pacific ocean, making side trips along the way to reveal the ups and downs of brain waves, radio waves, infrared waves, microwaves, shock waves, light waves, and much more.
Tides
The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide;...
The Northwest Coastal Explorer
Your Guide to the Places, Plants, and Animals of the Pacific Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
“Part field guide, part travel guide, Steelquist writes with the authoritative voice of that friend you want next to you on the trail or in the dunes—the one who knows just where to go for a weekend getaway and what to pack for the Pacific Northwest’s unpredictable weather.” —Portland Monthly
Millions...
The Dolphin in the Mirror
Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This scientific memoir by an aquarium researcher “illuminate[s] the world of the dolphin’s amazing intelligence and playfulness.” —Temple Grandin
“One comes away from Reiss’s book agreeing that ‘dolphins are among the smartest creatures on the planet’ and that they merit not...