Fish Ocean Life category: 917 books
Amazing Sea Animals
Amazing Animals Adventure Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Welcome to the Amazing Animals Adventure Series!
Come with us around the globe to explore the animal world.
In this book we will be visiting our underwater friends.
You will dive into the deep to swim with the fishes and other amazing sea creatures.
The salty ocean is vast, deep...
The American Fisherman
How Our Nation's Anglers Founded, Fed, Financed, and Forever Shaped the U.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**New York Times Bestseller • “A celebration of sport fishing in America, its history, locales, and impact.” — *New York Times Book Review ***
An essential book for everyone who loves casting a line into our nation's waters, The American Fisherman, by outdoorsman Willie Robertson...
Squid Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming....
Fishes
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
One fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of fish—or fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species. This is but one of many things the authors of this fascinatingly informative book reveal in answering common and not-so-common questions about this ubiquitous...
Gulf Stream Chronicles
A Naturalist Explores Life in an Ocean River
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including Sargassum mats...
Oceans
Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. This book explains how our oceans continue to support and influence life in important ways: by providing the largest global source...
Fishes of the Rainbow
Henry Compton's Art of the Reefs
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
In warm, shallow waters around the world, coral reefs teem with tens of thousands of marine species. Reefs rival rain forests in biodiversity, and about a third of the world’s marine fish species live part of their lives on coral reefs.
In the 1960s, marine biologist Henry “Hank” Compton...
25 Spooky Deep Sea Creatures
Weird & Wonderful Animals, #9
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Meet some of the scariest monsters of the deep!
Discover Some of the Strangest Animals that Live in the Ocean.
This is the 9th book in a series of titles about the strangest creatures in the animal kingdom on land and in the oceans.
The world is filled with an endless variety of creatures....
Poseidon's Steed
The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years
Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs...
Full Fathom Five
Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Not since Jacques Cousteau has anyone brought us the sense of the ocean as our home . . . Far more than a science book.” -San Francisco Book Review
Gordon Chaplin’s father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and transformed himself into...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality color images produced by a series of today's professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
Blowfish's Oceanopedia
291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The seas of our planet cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth, yet we know less about the ocean depths than the surface of the moon. Join marine biologist and fish-fanatic Tom "the Blowfish" Hird as he lifts the lid on a treasure chest of fascinating facts, to reveal just what we do know...
Demon Fish
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
A* *group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2003
John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn.
McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts...