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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
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A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason...
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List Price $15.00
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper
Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice
by David N Thomas
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Life abounds in and around the planet's ice caps and science has learned a great deal about it and the role pack ice plays in the world's ecology. This book is the first exploration of the topic for lay people and is abundantly illustrated....
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List Price $45.00
Your Price $16.98
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Blue Frontier Dispatches From Americ 2ND Edition
by David Helvarg
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A panoramic, highly readable report on the state of America's coastlines and the ocean wilderness off our shores, by a veteran environmental journalist. Gives the inside scoop on issues that have become major talking points for Americans since the...
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Your Price $11.50
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Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris
by Bonnie Henderson
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In Strand, travel writer and amateur naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the stories of wrack washed up on the mile-long stretch of Oregon beach she walked has regularly for more than a decade.
Henderson's writing conveys both a keen attention to the...
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Your Price $18.95
New - Trade Paper
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
by Trevor Corson
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In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Revor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning...
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Your Price $6.98
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The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
by Peter Heller
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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 Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission to stop illegal...
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Your Price $15.00
New - Trade Paper
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
by Mark Kurlansky
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The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a...
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List Price $25.00
Your Price $17.50
Used - Hardcover
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey
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A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators — and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them.
Susan Casey was in her living room when she...
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The Silent World (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Jacques Cousteau
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Before becoming the man who introduced us to the wonders of the sea through his beloved television series, Jacques Cousteau was better known as an engineer and the inventor of scuba. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in The Silent...
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Your Price $13.00
New - Trade Paper
The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest
by J Duane Sept
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A concise beautifully illustrated guide that aids in identifying the most common intertidal animals and plants of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon....
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Your Price $24.95
New - Trade Paper
Pacific Seaweeds >canadian< (00 Edition)
by Druehl
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"Pacific Seaweeds" is the authoritative guide to over 100 common species of seaweeds in the Pacific Northwest, ranging from the coastline of southeast Alaska to central California....
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List Price $19.95
Your Price $11.00
Used - Trade Paper
Pacific Coast (Audubon Guide)
by Bayard Harlow Mcconnaughey
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A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the birds, plants, fishes, insects, seashore creatures, and other natural wonders of North America's western shores, from Alaska to southern California....
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List Price $19.95
Your Price $11.00
Used - Trade Paper
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