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To Touch a Wild Dolphin: A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures

by Rachel Smolker

To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact...

Grayson

by Lynne Cox

Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened...

Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality

by Ph.D., Helen Scales

Seahorses lead quiet lives, tucked away out of sight on the seafloor. It is rare to catch a glimpse of a seahorse in its natural habitat. But even if few have seen one live, these exotic, seemingly prehistoric...

The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals

by Peter Heller

Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars

For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors, veteran adventure writer...

Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival

by Michael J. Tougias

From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet.

In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long...

The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

by Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman

The true story of an incredible disaster and heroic rescue at sea told by two masterful storytellers

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Oceans

by Kim W. Tetrault & Joe Kraynak

Although our oceans are some of the most beautiful and diverse environments in the world, most people know very little about the ocean's ecology or just how much humans depend on the oceans for survival.

The...

The Sea Hunters II

by Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo

From the author of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.

Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish

by James Prosek

They are the only fish that spawn in the middle of the ocean but spend their adult lives in freshwater. They can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and even cross over land. They are revered as guardians...

The Story of Sushi

by Trevor Corson

Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it

Trevor Corson takes us behind the scenes at America's...

Dolphin Chronicles: One Woman's Quest to Understand the Sea's Most Mysterious Creatures

by Carol J. Howard

For everyone fascinated with the possibilities of human-animal communications, scientist Carol Howard provides an intimate, moving account of one woman's attempt to unravel the mysteries of the dolphin--one...

Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty

by Craig Welch

Shell Games is a cops-and-robbers tale set in a double-crossing world where smugglers fight turf wars over some of the world's strangest marine creatures.

Puget Sound sits south of the border between the U.S....

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

by Wendy Williams

Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative...

Marine Ecology: Concepts and Applications

by Martin R. Speight & Peter A. Henderson

This book began life as a series of lectures given to second and third year undergraduates at Oxford University.  These lectures were designed to give students insights as to how marine ecosystems functioned,...

The Outermost House

by Henry Beston

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 Ecology of the Indonesian Seas Part Two

by Tomas Tomascik, Anmarie J. Mah & Anugerah Nontji

The challenging task of documenting Indonesia's marine realm is presented here in a two-volume set, the result of worldwide literature reviews and extensive new field observations.

The first volume provides a...

The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas Part One

by Tomas Tomascik, Anmarie J. Mah & Anugerah Nontji

The challenging task of documenting Indonesia's marine realm is presented here in a two-volume set.

The first volume provides a review of the geology, physical oceanography and meteorology of the archipelago....

Tales of Southern Rivers

by Zane Grey

Tales of Southern Rivesr recounts Grey's tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, on rivers in the jungles fo Mexico, the Florida Keys, and in the Everglades.

Tales of Fishes

by Zane Grey

Zane Grey is best known as a fishing writer for the wild adventures of catching world record giants in the oceans around the world.

Sea Turtles: The Watchers' Guide

by Timothy O'Keefe

Discover how and where you can witness sea turtles nesting in Florida. This book not only gives an excellent overview of sea turtle life, it also provides the specifics of appropriate personal conduct and behavior...