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The Ocean of Life
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99A Silent Spring for oceans?from ?the Rachel Carson of the fish world? ( The New York Times ) The sea feeds and sustains us, but its future is under catastrophic threat. In this powerful and ambitious book Callum Roberts?one of the world?s foremost conservation biologists?tells the story of the history of the sea, from the earliest traces... more...
How to Snog a Hagfish!
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 12.99For most people, seasickness is the most unpleasant thing they experience at sea. However, beneath the surface is a whole other world, and a lot of it could turn all but the strongest stomachs. When attacked, the hagfish (also known as the slime eel) ties itself in a knot that travels the length of its body, squeezing out mucus by the bucketful and... more...
Life in the Pacific Ocean
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 16.95The Sea, from its shimmering surface to its sunless depths, teems with life. Its watery world is not our world, but Life in the Pacific Ocean , with its vivd photographs and engaging text, gives us a glimpse into the secrets beneath the surface of the ocean. How do barnacles have sex? Why are sea stars the most feared predators of the intertidal... more...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableThe worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. more...
Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Seashells
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 5.95Features 170 mollusks from Southeast Asia with information on their habitat and behavior. more...
The Way of a Ship
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 11.99When, 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," Cape Horn. A century later, Derek Lundy, author of the bestselling... more...
A Voyage For Madmen
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward... more...
The Whale Warriors
Free Press 2007; US$ 19.99Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors , veteran adventure writer Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy,... more...
Black Wave
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 25.00?I told God that if he would let us survive this night, I would make it mean something worthwhile. And then, somehow, I felt calmer than I have ever felt. Unreasonably so. Irrationally so. I looked over the scene of our wrecked life and I smiled?a crazy smile for sure?and I looked through the dark at the mad beauty of it.? ?Jean Silverwood An... more...
Jacques Cousteau
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality. Inventor of the aqualung and fearless scuba diver, Jacques Cousteau opened up the ocean to a mass audience for the first time. Here, with the cooperation of many of... more...









