Fish category: 1105 books
Orca
The Whale Called Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
"Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville."
(Discover Magazine)
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by Iain McCalman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier,...
by Mark Carwardine
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
A new and fully updated edition of this popular title, which is the definitive guide to watching whales, dolphins and porpoises in British and other European waters. A fascinating introduction to whales and whale watching is followed by a detailed field guide with spectacular illustrations, identification...
by Mark Leiren-Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale—a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them.
Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale...
Puget Sound Whales for Sale
The Fight to End Orca Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In November 2005, Washington's iconic killer whales, known as Southern Resident orcas, were placed on the endangered species list. It was a victory long overdue for a fragile population of fewer than one hundred whales. Author and certified marine naturalist Sandra Pollard traces the story and destinies...
A Sense of the Sea
Our View of the Sea and How We Got It
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
"What does the ocean mean to people - to individuals and to society as a whole? That is the question Brian Whitehouse answers in his first book, A Sense of the Sea. An avid sailor, oceanographer, and former Executive Director of the influential Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing, Dr. Whitehouse...
by Dean Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
A sleek hunter of the seas, the shark has struck fear into the hearts of men since the days of the first fishermen. Dean Crawford now explores here the long relationship between shark and man, revealing that behind the fearsome caricature is a complex animal that deserves a thoughtful reconsideration.
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The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In...
The Wave Watcher's Companion
Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Get ready for a global journey like none other-a passionate enthusiast's exploration of waves that begins with a massive surfable cloud and ends with the majestic Pacific ocean, making side trips along the way to reveal the ups and downs of brain waves, radio waves, infrared waves, microwaves, shock waves, light waves, and much more.
Tides
The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide;...
by Joe Kraynak, Kim W. Tetrault
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Although our oceans are some of the most beautiful and diverse environments in the world, most people know very little about the ocean's ecology or just how much humans depend on the oceans for survival.
The Complete Idiot's Guide' to the Oceans will be a marine-lover's reference for mapping...
The Northwest Coastal Explorer
Your Guide to the Places, Plants, and Animals of the Pacific Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
“Part field guide, part travel guide, Steelquist writes with the authoritative voice of that friend you want next to you on the trail or in the dunes—the one who knows just where to go for a weekend getaway and what to pack for the Pacific Northwest’s unpredictable weather.” —Portland Monthly
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Freshwater Aquarium
An Instant Reference To Freshwater Aquarium, Live Aquarium Plants, Coldwater Aquarium, Aquarium Tanks and Reef Aquarium
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A consumer's guide to freshwater aquarium, live aquarium plants, coldwater aquarium, aquarium tanks and reef aquarium.
by Noel Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Southern Africa has some of the best whale and dolphin watching opportunities in the world, with over half of the world’s species being found in our waters. Watching Whales & Dolphins in Southern Africa is an essential guide to watching the region’s 12 more common species. In addition to species...