Fish Ocean Life category: 917 books
by Dianne Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
"We are the Cetaceans, your oceanic brothers and sisters, here to work along with you to preserve and care for our home on earth. We are here in our full consciousness, waiting patiently for Earth's children to bloom into the caretakers you were meant to be. We are all connected as one." The Call Goes...
Life in the Dark
Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of sunlight. This strange and fascinating world of complete darkness is not a solitary place—it is inhabited by millions of life forms. Yet most humans—creatures of daylight—have never...
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...
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...
Swimming Lessons
Nature's Mothers--Sea Lions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"Wyland is a marine life Michelangelo." --USA Today* Premier marine life artist Wyland--whose galleries are visited by more than five million people each year--offers a photographic tribute to the bond between mother and child.Easily the world's most recognizable and influential marine...
Vertical Reefs
Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana play an important role in the lives of underwater species who find food, shelter, and permanent homes in the ecosystem created by these big, three-dimensional...
by Bridget MacCaskill
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Bridget MacCaskill has been observing otters for many years and studies undertaken with her late husband, Don, resulted in books and a film about otters and their environment. Otters are fascinating and delightful creatures but to watch them in their natural habitat requires immense patience over...
To Touch a Wild Dolphin
A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow scientists were...
The Secret Life of Lobsters
How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about...
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 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
Millions...
Eye of the Albatross
Visions of Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he...
Shark Tracker
Confessions of an Underwater Cameraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Ever wondered what it would be like to be up close and personal with a constipated shark? Thought about keeping a great white as a pet? Or fantasised about naming a deadly animal after your ex? Richard ‘Shark Tracker' Fitzpatrick, who wrangles sharks and other deadly marine creatures for a living,...
Before We Leave You
Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir...