Oceans: a visual guide.
Firefly Books, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. A visual guide to oceans, their formation and extent, the life-forms they support, their value to humans, and the threats they face. More
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The Hadal Zone: life in the deepest oceans.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. The hadal zone represents one of the last great frontiers in marine science, accounting for 45% of the total ocean depth range. Despite very little research effort since the 1950s, the last ten years has seen..... More
Archipelago: portraits of life in the world's most remote island sanctuary.
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $140. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are a remarkable ecosystem that supports a vast array of plants and animals that have evolved in this habitat over millions of years, many existing nowhere else on the planet. With more than 300..... More
Deep: freediving, renegade science, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2014. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something seemingly miraculous: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and..... More
RSPB handbook of the seashore.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. This book will help you to easily identify and learn about the life cycles and anatomy of the species likely to be encountered along Britain's coastline. Useful sections provide details on the tidal cycle, how to read tide tables, where to look..... More
Reader's Digest book of the Great Barrier Reef.
Sydney: Reader's Digest, (1990. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
The year of the crab: marine animals in modern medicine.
New York: Norton, [1987. first edition). Octavo, Owner's stamp, dustwrapper slightly worn, otherwise a good copy in dustwrapper. More
Oceanic wilderness.
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $90. Featuring 500 fantastic colour photographs, this work captures the beauty of marine life found in the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. More
Elements of marine ecology: an introductory course.
London: Butterworths, 1981. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
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