Marine Life category: 1318 books
by Matthew Landau
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 1997
Millions of people spend time around the ocean. In doing so, most have come into contact with an animal that has a protective mechanism of some sort. Landau explains in detail, with the aid of illustrations, the types of marine animals that exist in the waters of the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean and the particular type of toxins or dangers each poses.
Waltzes with Giants
The Twilight Journey of the North Atlantic Right Whale
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Waltzes with Giants is a moving portrait of one of the earth’s largest endangered mammals. Mystical and provocative, the book is inspired by a real North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) and her threatened migrations from Atlantic Canada to her calving grounds off the coasts of Georgia...
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide
A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found between Tide-marks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Introduction
I Signs on the Beach
II Collecting
III Classification
IV Animal Life in its Lowest Forms
V Distribution of Animal Life in the Sea
VI Some Botanical Facts about Algæ
VII Naming...
Shark Drunk
The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean
The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers...
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...
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!
Poseidon's Steed
The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years
Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs...
Voices in the Ocean
A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth, a breathtaking journey through the extraordinary world of dolphins
Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability,...
Octopus
The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends—from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula the...
by Callum Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island...
Jellyfish
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Jellyfish, with their undulating umbrella-shaped bells and sprawling tentacles, are as fascinating and beautiful as they are frightening and dangerous. They are found in every ocean at every depth, and they are the oldest multi-organed life form on the planet, having inhabited the ocean for more than...
Amazing Sea Animals
Amazing Animals Adventure Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Welcome to the Amazing Animals Adventure Series!
Come with us around the globe to explore the animal world.
In this book we will be visiting our underwater friends.
You will dive into the deep to swim with the fishes and other amazing sea creatures.
The salty ocean is vast, deep...