Fish Ocean Life category: 917 books
Shell Games
Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life...
by Lawson Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean reveals the fascinating wealth of sea life found in this diverse but little-documented region. This compact and easy-to-use guide, illustrated with many specially-commissioned colour photographs taken in a number of unique and exotic locations, is an essential companion...
Crab Wars
A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Surviving almost unmolested for 300 million years, the horseshoe crab is now the object of an intense legal and ethical struggle involving marine biologists, environmentalists, US government officials, biotechnologists, and international corporations. The source of this friction is the discovery 25...
Shucked
Life on a New England Oyster Farm
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Bill Buford's Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch's Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history
In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury,...
Ebb and Flow
Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007's "best science books" by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec. 30, 2007]. He calls it a "wonderful resource book…. Tom Koppel seems to have visited or read about every place with unusual tides and water currents, yet he wears this...
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...
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...
by Cinzia Codato
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
These are horizons that have passed before my eyes in two years of my life, the two years of my sailing trip around the world.
This book is not a marine navigation manual, nor a guide to tropical countries, or a naturalistic documentary, or a love story, but it's a bit of everything.
This is my life...
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.
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...
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...
The Whaling Season
An Inside Account Of The Struggle To Stop Commercial Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Despite a decades-long international moratorium on commercial whaling, one fleet has continued to hunt and kill whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Refusing to let this defiance go unchallenged, the environmental organization Greenpeace began dispatching expeditions to the region in an effort...
Glorious Gulf of Mexico
Life Below the Blue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Stunned by widespread ignorance about the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Macondo oil spill, underwater photographer Jesse Cancelmo decided to turn his camera on the marine life of this 600,000 square mile international sea that connects five US states, six Mexican states, and the island nation...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!