Marine Life category: 1318 books

Discover your amazing world through curious and fascinating up-close photography! The Up Close series features an assortment of fascinating micro and macro photography. Sea Life concentrates on our beautiful and curious oceans, exploring up-close photography of fish, coral, and other sea creatures....

A comprehensive, authoritative account of the natural history of the seashore, from earliest times to the present day. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com The seashore, with its endlessly changing tides, is one of the most fluctuating physical environments on the planet. Home to an abundance...

Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps, Edward Marriott joins the last surviving shark fishermen to...

The Fish Who Gave Birth To A Lion is a story about a life that is untold from birth. A Fish who had no awareness of knowing thyself grew up as an only child full of questions. She is in for a big surprise and her curiosity leads her into trouble. She grows up as an orphan and discovers who she and realizes her greatness by giving birth to a lion.

Life may have its own special plans for you. A well-meaning friend submits Iggy’s ink art to a big contest.  A quiet inkapus, Iggy finds himself suddenly thrown into the spotlight and totally unprepared—and it only gets more embarrassing from there. Will he ever have a quiet life again? Iggy...

Alphaprints goes under the ocean to meet 20 fabulous sea creatures—from the tiny seahorse to the big, blue whale—all ingeniously created from embossed fingerprints and photographs of everyday things. This casebound board book has a creature on each page, with a lighthearted rhyming couplet...

In this lyrical story about friendship and the power of dreams, a small and ordinary fish named Glub asks himself the big questions in life as he observes life in the diner beyond his fishbowl. Who am I? Where do I belong? The lively characters around him provide unexpected answers, but soon it’s Glub...

A gray fin suddenly rises out of the still blue water. Watch out! A great white shark is looking for its next meal. Cool! Sea Life introduces some of the most interesting and unusual creatures that live beneath the ocean’s surface. Spectrum® Readers are the perfect Common Core aligned tool...

All life began in the oceans, and so much life still remains there, leading an existence mysterious to most of us. Vivid, color illustrations enhance a fact-filled, entertaining text which teaches the young reader about the fascinating life under the seas and oceans.

Young children will enjoy discovering the 58 fascinating ocean creatures in My First Book of Southern African Ocean Life, which range in size from the earth's largest animal – the blue whale – to the tiniest plankton. This newest title in the popular My first book series offers: vibrantly colourful,...

This book introduces more than 50 of the diverse creatures and plants found on beaches and in rock pools along the southern African coastline, such as anemones, limpets, sea slugs, seaweeds and many others. It provides visual clues to creatures’ size, diet, and where to find them, along with simple...

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...

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,...

As every fresh branch of investigation in natural history has a tendency to gather around it a rapidly accumulating literature, some explanation may probably be looked for from an author who offers a new contribution to the public. And when, as in the present instance, the writer's intentions are...