Fish Ocean Life category: 917 books
by Eleanor Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Winner of the National Book Award
“[Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel,...
Fatal Forecast
An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eight young fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again.
On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats...
The Soul of an Octopus
A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year *...
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
**From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in...
The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
**A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007
A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007
Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007
Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History
"The...
by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea.
In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters...
Journey of the Pink Dolphins
An Amazon Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
By the acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig.
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the littleknown pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops...
The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty" (New York Herald Tribune)
A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature...
by Mark Carwardine
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Commercial whale-watching began in 1955 in California, when a San Diego fisherman started taking people (for a dollar a time) to see Grey Whales migrating along the coast. Nowadays, 13 million people go whale-watching each year, in 119 different countries around the world. The undisputed hotspot –...
Shark
A Visual History
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
“The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movies and literature, but in countless permutations of size, shape, and materials, permeating our daily lives with their silent menace. In a sense, humans...
The Zoo on the Road to Nablus
A Story of Survival from the West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very edge of the West Bank.
The zoo's bars are rusting; peacocks wander quiet avenues shaded by broad plane trees; a teenage baboon broods in solitary confinement; walls bear...
by Stephen Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Whale watching off the Southern California Coast in your boat is always exciting and relatively benign. But it is possible to get into trouble. We did one day.
by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1997
A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.