Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this...
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eBook.
Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this...
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The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
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Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more...
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Also available as an
eBook.
The World Is Blue
Written by Sylvia A. Earle
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
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Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we’ve learned more...
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Ocean
An Illustrated Atlas
Written by Sylvia A. Earle and Linda K. Glover
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $65.00
Detailing a mysterious realm that’s as vital to our existence as the air we breathe, this new atlas immerses readers in the wonders of the deep through more than 250 up-to-the-minute maps, photographs, and satellite images. Deep-sea pioneer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia A. Earle (known as "Her Deepness") and marine...
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Encyclopedia of the Sea
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2000
Price: $35.00
From one of the world's leading experts on the sea comes this ocean-sized compendium of aquatic life and lore. Richard Ellis--who is also recognized as America's foremost painter of marine subjects--gives us a masterful synthesis of years of investigation and tens of thousands of disparate sources. The result is the first...
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Cathedral of the World
Sailing Notes for a Blue Planet
Written by Myron Arms
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2000
Price: $15.00
The curved lines of a sailing ship resemble the inverted dome of a great cathedral, surrounded not by soot-covered buildings and crowded streets but by a vast liquid wilderness. This physical and symbolic connection is at the thematic heart of
Cathedral of the World, a collection of essays in which writer...
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