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by Todd Telander
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Falcon Pocket Guides are full-color, visually appealing, on-the-go guides for identifying plants and animals and learning about nature.
The Last Run
A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. In January 1998, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, a cataclysmic Arctic storm with hurricane-force winds and towering seas forced five fishermen to abandon their vessel in...
by J. Andrew G. Cooper, Orrin H. Pilkey
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat...
by Paula Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The seas, oceans and rivers of the world are one of the last great wild frontiers. Here, gigantic herbivores and voracious predators make their homes. There may be no real Loch Ness monsters, but sea "monsters" of all sizes and shapes can still be found lurking in the ocean’s darkest depths.From the...
What Do We Know About Animals? Life in the Seas
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS?, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Animals are everywhere including in the seas. Explore the world of sea creatures in this amazing book.
by Bob Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Bloomsbury Green Guides are portable handbooks to the most commonly found species in Britain and Europe.
Our coastlines are home to a wide range of animals and plants, some that are iconic sights on beaches and others that we only see when we look more closely. The Green Guide to Seashore Life...
Two Oceans
A guide to the marine life of southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
For over two decades Two Oceans has been the pre-eminent book to which scientists, students, divers and beachcombers turn to identify and learn about marine life, from sponges to whales and seaweeds to dune forests. In this exuberantly colourful, fully revised fourth edition, over 2 000 species are...
by Frank Sherwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The oceans may well be Earth’s final frontier. These dark and sometimes mysterious waters cover 71 percent of the surface area of the globe and have yet to be fully explored. Under the waves, a watery world of frail splendor, foreboding creatures, vast mountains, and sights beyond imagination awaits....
Life along the Inner Coast
A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, Life along the Inner Coast is a guide...
Lake Invaders
Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
There are more than 180 exotic species in the Great Lakes. Some, such as green algae, the Asian tapeworm, and the suckermouth minnow, have had little or no impact so far. But a handful of others—sea lamprey, alewife, round goby, quagga mussel, zebra mussel, Eurasian watermilfoil, spiny water flea,...
by Andrea Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
At last, a fantastically illustrated new addition to the classic nature guide series.
A Golden Guide to Sharks, like all the books in the series, presents a general overview of its subject in accessible prose, illuminated by detailed illustrations...
Because of Nickel
The Adventures of a Used Turtle Salesman
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Because of Nickel, the adventures of a Used Turtle Salesman, is the story of the authors lifelong attachment to his animal friends and his decade long quest to fi nd homes for non- releasable sea turtles like his friend Nickel the sea turtle at Chicagos Shedd Aquarium. A continuation of Jim Gamlins...
Seahorses
A Life-Size Guide to Every Species
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Absolutely captivating creatures, seahorses seem like a product of myth and imagination rather than of nature. They are small, elusive, and are named for their heads, which are shaped like miniature ponies with tiny snouts. They swim slowly upright by rapidly fanning their delicate dorsal fin, coil...
by Marge Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"PEARLS OF CREATION A-Z OF PEARLS" WILL APPEAL TO READERS OF ALL AGES, WITH NUMEROUS DIFFERENT INTERESTS, INCLUDING LIBRARIES, SCHOLARS, PEARL LOVERS, JEWELLERS AND GEMOLOGISTS. IT COVERS GOD'S CREATION OF MARINE LIFE, NATURE CONSERVATION, HATCHERIES, ANTIQUES, COLLECTABLES, DIVING, KNOWING...