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In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
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by Helen Scales
Published Jun 2022
Read Reviews"The oceans have always shaped human lives," writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. "However, one way or another, the future ocean is the deep ocean."
by Jeff Goodell
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsAn eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world.
by Stephan Faris
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsA vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near future—politically, economically, and culturally
by Richard Preston
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsRichard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained – the coast redwood...
Underwater to Get Out of the Rain
by Trevor Norton
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsEminent marine biologist Trevor Norton takes us around the oceans of the world in this fascinating semi autobiograpical lovefest with the oceans.
by Tim Flannery
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsThe Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals.
by Linda Greenlaw
Published Jul 2003
Read ReviewsWith fascinating nautical descriptions and her eye for the dramas of small-town life, Greenlaw does for lobstering what her first book, The Hungry Ocean, did for swordfishing. Honest, funny, scrappy, and authentic.
by Sebastian Junger
Published Jun 2000
Read Reviews"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost".
Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsA great American adventure story of the opening of Earth's last frontier.
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