Oceans Seas category: 226 books
by Bob Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Bloomsbury Green Guides are portable handbooks to the most commonly found species in Britain and Europe.
Our coastlines are home to a wide range of animals and plants, some that are iconic sights on beaches and others that we only see when we look more closely. The Green Guide to Seashore Life...
by Eugene A. Shinn, Barbara H. Lidz
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
"A joy to read from two of the most prominent geologists who have worked for the better part of their careers in the Florida Keys. Places important environmental focus on modern-day issues facing the island ecosystems, the health of Florida Bay, the nearshore areas, and ultimately the reef tract."--Donald...
Glimpses of Ocean Life
Rock-Pools and the Lessons They Teach
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
South Solo
Kayaking to Save the Albatross
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
An Antarctic adventure of solo kayaking—an inspirational and wondrous real-life story.
A record of an intrepid woman’s solo kayaking expedition around the South Georgia Island, Antarctica, to raise awareness for the magnificent Albatross who are perishing by the thousands in the...
Reef Libre
Cuba—The Last, Best Reefs in the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Decades of isolation from tourism and development have left Cuba’s coral reefs among the most pristine in the world, an “exceptionalism” that stands in stark contrast to the island nation’s poverty and political situation. Famed diver/photographer Robert “Snorkel Bob” Wintner showcases...
by Vittoria Amati
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
For those who love the sea no place is more magical to dive in than a coral reef. Among rainbow like fish, oddly shaped corals and light beams that colour the bottom of the sea in hues of turquoise and gold the reef is the most exhaustive kindergarten in which you can loose yourself.
What not...
The California Current
A Pacific Ecosystem and Its Fliers, Divers, and Swimmers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. To a casual observer standing on the shore, the vast current betrays...
How to Read a North Carolina Beach
Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the...
The Remembered Land
Surviving Sea-level Rise after the Last Ice Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape. This book brings together the ecological, economic, and social implications of the spatial conflict this growth entails. Covering all energy-generation types (wind, wave, tidal, oil, and...
The American Sea
A Natural History of the Gulf of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
For more than a decade, Rezneat Darnell worked on this major synthesis of what is known about the Gulf of Mexico. His goal: to bring a deeper understanding of “the American Sea” to students, scientists, managers, and educated citizens of the public at large. The American Sea builds on Darnell’s...
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Fisherman's Blues
A West African Community at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE
An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.**
The sea is broken, fishermen say....