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Emperors of the Deep
Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel misplaced fear and correct common misconceptions, explores in-depth the secret lives of sharks—magnificent creatures who play an integral part in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans and ultimately...
by Eleanor Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Winner of the National Book Award
“[Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel,...
The Breath of a Whale
The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales.
Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates...
Fatal Forecast
An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eight young fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again.
On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats...
The Soul of an Octopus
A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year *...
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
**From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in...
The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon...
by Robert Kunzig
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader.
The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species...
The Finest Hours
The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
The true story of an incredible disaster and heroic rescue at sea told by two masterful storytellers.
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril.
In...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
**A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007
A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007
Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007
Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History
"The...
by Mark Chisnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Are you warm, safe and dry?
Good - because the ocean can be a dangerous place and never more so than when the barometric pressure plummets and huge waves start to rise up from the deep. These five short stories - chilling, funny and scary in turns - will show you just how ugly and dangerous...
Beneath the Surface
Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
*Now a New York Times Best Seller*
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened,...
Overboard!
A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet.
In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new...
The Great Sea
A Human History of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself:...