Animals - Marine Life
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Seashells of North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Edition
$23.00 Add to cartGathering seashells is one of the delights of a beach trip; everyone knows the feeling of spotting something beautiful among a seemingly infinite array of colors and shapes dotting the shoreline. Gene… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: North Carolina Sea Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678942
- Language: English
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Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels
$28.00 Add to cartEllen Ruppel Shell’s Slippery Beast is a fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creature–the eel–a thrilling saga of true crime, natural history, travel, and big business.
What is it about eels- Author: Shell, Ellen Ruppel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 141976585X
- Language: English
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The Great White Shark Handbook: The Definitive Guide to the Most Extraordinary Shark in the Sea
$19.99 Add to cartShark Week expert, Dr. Greg Skomal, returns with a new shark handbook offering you a thorough exploration of the most fearsome and misunderstood shark on Earth.
Discover the great white’s astonishing e
- Author: Skomal, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1604337710
- Language: English
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Fascinating Shells: An Introduction to 121 of the World’s Most Wonderful Mollusks
$22.50 Add to cartA New Scientist Best Book of the Year
Beautiful photographs of stunning shells from London’s Natural History Museum, home to one of the most significant and comprehensive collections in the world. C- Author: Salvador, Andreia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226819132
- Language: English
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Lost Whale
$39.99 Add to cartThe heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm.
One summer in Nootka Sound- Author: Parfit, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0312353642
- Language: English
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Guide to the Manta and Devil Rays of the World
$23.95 Add to cartManta and devil rays are some of the most intriguing creatures in the ocean. Driven forward by powerful beats of wing-like pectoral fins, these filter feeders search the waters for prey, their horn-li
- Series: Wild Nature Press #13
- Author: Stevens, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183325
- Language: English
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Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World They Live in
$29.95 Add to cartPraise for the first edition:
“More than a picture book … Hoyt’s elegant writing provides both the historical background for deep-sea exploration and an ecological perspective on life in the ocea
- Author: Hoyt, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0228103290
- Language: English
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Seashore Life
$8.99 Read moreThis compact guide will help you understand–and enjoy–the unique zone where land and ocean meet. It is a guide to:
Seashells
Sea Plants
Shore Birds
Jellyfish, Starfish, Sand Crabs With over 475 marine- Series: Golden Guide from St. Martin’s Press
- Author: Ingle, Lester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 14 2001
- ISBN10: 1582381496
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Corals: Sex, War and Rocks That Don’t Roll
$29.95 Add to cartWhen we think of coral reefs we tend to think of beautiful rock-like structures teaming with colorful fish and other marine life. But what exactly are the “corals” in the coral reef? What are these cr… [more below]
- Author: Vaughan, David E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1604271884
- Language: English
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Octopus: The Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate
$29.00 Add to cartThe visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famo… [more below]
- Author: Mather, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1604690674
- Language: English
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War of the Whales: A True Story
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1451645023
- Language: English
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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
$19.99 Add to cart“A love letter to the ‘largest, loudest, oldest’ mammal ever to have existed…exhilarating.” -People Magazine
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction,
From his childhood fascination with
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hoare, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061976202
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks
$22.99 Add to cartJournalist Susan Casey joins a strange band of surfer-scientists on a remote island off the California coast for some close encounters with the jaws of the world’s most mysterious and fearsome predato
- Author: Casey, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080112
- Language: English
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Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
$19.95 Read moreIn this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig,
- Author: Berger, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745444
- Language: English
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Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History
$24.95 Add to cart“A magnificent journey alongside orcas, bringing these beautiful creatures to life.” –Jay Ritchlin, David Suzuki Foundation
Spirits of the Coast brings together the work of marine biologists, Indigen- Author: Cullis-Suzuki, Severn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0772677689
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
$35.00 Add to cartIn this updated edition, award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into the field for an intimate encounter with 93 species of cetaceans that make their homes in the world’s
- Author: Hoyt, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0228104351
- Language: English
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A Pocket Guide to Sharks of the World: Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartAn updated and comprehensive guide identifying all of the world’s sharks
Sharks are some of the most misunderstood animals on the planet. We still have a lot to learn about these fascinating creatures- Series: Wild Nature Press #23
- Author: Ebert, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0691218749
- Language: English
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Coral Reefs: A Natural History
$35.00 Read moreAn illustrated look at corals and the reefs they build around the world, and the causes and dire consequences of their rapid disappearance
Corals are among the most varied lifeforms on Earth, ranging- Author: Kelley, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0691198683
- Language: English
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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
$69.95 Add to cartFinalist for 2006 BC Booksellers’ Choice Award In Honour Of Bill Duthie
With 1,700 superb colour photographs of over 1,400 species, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of … [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1550173618
- Language: English
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Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
$22.00 Add to cartPractical and portable, this is the ultimate field guide to the world’s cetaceans.
This outstanding new field guide to whales, dolphins and porpoises is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to- Series: Bloomsbury Naturalist
- Author: Carwardine, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1472969979
- Language: English
