London: Natural History Museum, 2000. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, softcover.

Richly illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, this informative book tells how oceanography developed as a science and summarizes what is known about the organisms that live in the deep ocean. Describing underwater mountains and plains as well as the major currents of the Atlantic and Pacific, Tony Rice charts the four marine layers in which similar species can be found in many different sea.