Fish category: 1105 books
The Lost Whale
The True Story of an Orca Named Luna
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm.
One summer in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale called Luna...
The Bottlenose Dolphin
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years.
After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human...
by Amria B Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Diving, snorkeling and swimming with turtles in the tropical paradise Philippine Islands- through the eyes of a teenager.
by Amria, age 13 (and 2/3) As told to and edited by her Dad, age 70 Original photos by Amria
by Linda Kita-Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This high-interest, low-vocabulary photostory is suitable for adult basic education (ABE) and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students who are beginning readers. Did you know that grey seals can stay under water for 20 minutes? And that the mother seals leave their young only two or three weeks...
Narwhals
Arctic Whales in a Melting World
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff...
What Is Natural?
Coral Reef Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1999
During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality images produced by a series of today's professional photographers.
Governing Transboundary Waters
Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award!
With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose...
by Alex MacCormick
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The biggest-ever selection of first-hand accounts and news reports of shark attacks, both recent and historical, shows how sharks are masters of the ocean and how we enter their domain at our own risk.
Think you're safe in the Med? Read about the Great Whites that thrive near holiday beaches.
Think...
The 101 Best Nano-Reef Species
How to Choose & Keep Hardy, Brilliant, Fascinating Species Perfect for Small Aquariums
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The popularity of nano-reef tanks (or reef tanks under 30 gallons) has exploded over recent years. These delicate systems require specialized species that are able to survive and thrive in a smaller tank. Written by internationally recognized writer, underwater photographer, and marine biology researcher...
Junk Raft
An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft”
News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...
Turning the Tide
Saving the Chesapeake Bay
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
In 1991, Island Press published Turning the Tide, a unique and accessible examination of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The book took an indepth look at the Bay’s vital signs to gauge the overall health of its entire ecosystem and to assess what had been done and what remained to be done to clean...
by Anthony D. Fredericks, Glenn Gauvry
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Traveling from the Delaware Bay to the Florida Panhandle, this examination is a quest through the natural history and science behind one of nature’s oldest and oddest survivors—the horseshoe crab. With ten eyes, five pairs of walking legs, a heart half the length of their bodies, and blood that...
Red Coral
Extreme Diving and the Plunder of Red Coral in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
For Captain Leonardo Fusco the discovery of the sea started at the age of nine. Years later while snorkeling off the coast of Palinuro, he discovered a branch of Corallium Rubrum (red coral) that for centuries has been widely traded and highly valued in the jewelry industry. As a result of this...