Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton (Oceans in Depth),Used

Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton (Oceans in Depth),Used

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A delightful AtoZ menagerie of the seawhimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thoughtprovoking.For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planets most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and through both text and original illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a celebration of our ongoing quest to know the sea and its creatures.Focusing on individual species or groups of animals, Richard J. King embarks upon a global tour of ocean wildlife, including beluga whales, flying fish, green turtles, mako sharks, noddies, right whales, sea cows (as well as sea lions, sea otters, and sea pickles), skipjack tuna, swordfish, tropicbirds, walrus, and yellowbellied sea snakes. But more than this, King connects the natural history of ocean animals to the experiences of people out at sea and along the worlds coastlines. From firsthand accounts passed down by the earliest Polynesian navigators to observations from Wampanoag clamshell artists, AfricanAmerican whalemen, Korean female divers (or haenyeo), and todays pilots of deepsea submersiblesand even to imaginary sea expeditions launched through poems, novels, and paintingsOcean Bestiary weaves together a diverse array of human voices underrepresented in environmental history to tell the larger story of our relationship with the sea. Sometimes funny, sometimes alarming, but always compelling, Kings vignettes reveal both how our perceptions of the sea have changed for the better and how far we still have to go on our voyage.

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