Fish category: 1105 books
Shark
A Visual History
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
“The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movies and literature, but in countless permutations of size, shape, and materials, permeating our daily lives with their silent menace. In a sense, humans...
Commercial Fishing in Alaska
The Prospective Deckhand's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
This Prospective Guide isn’t here to hold your hand and walk you step-by-step through your adventure. Because that’s not adventure. No, this guide is here to offer some perspective. To share some tales. To offer a few opinions. To help you decide on which path to take. But the joy remains in...
The Zoo on the Road to Nablus
A Story of Survival from the West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very edge of the West Bank.
The zoo's bars are rusting; peacocks wander quiet avenues shaded by broad plane trees; a teenage baboon broods in solitary confinement; walls bear...
Time Bandit
Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon...
by Stephen Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Whale watching off the Southern California Coast in your boat is always exciting and relatively benign. But it is possible to get into trouble. We did one day.
by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1997
A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.
Amazing Diving Stories
Incredible Tales from Deep Beneath the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
This collection of true diving stories makes for compelling reading for all divers. Enjoy classic tales of this extreme watersport, from thrilling wreck discoveries to encounters with the bizarre and the beautiful. There are stories of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. Tales of the...
The Lost Fleet
The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.
Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean...
The Way of a Ship
A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When, 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,"...
Shark Drunk
The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean
The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers...
Atlas of the Maldives
A reference for Travellers Divers and Sailors
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Fully revised and updated with detailed maps of all atolls and features including dive sites, surfing sites, mangroves, turtle and bird nesting islands, protected marine areas and a complete island index with a new grid referencing system. Includes a history of early mapping and information on atoll...
by Philip Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A yearlong adventure through the world’s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The Whale
In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain’s Southampton Water...
by Ernst Haeckel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the...
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves...