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Grayson
by Lynne Cox
Powells.com Staff Pick
You'd swear from the synopsis that it's fiction, grist for an after-school special or Disney's latest blockbuster. But, no, seventeen-year-old long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox, training one morning off the California coast, discovered a baby gray whale... ( read more)
List Price $13.00
Your price: $7.95
Used - 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
Publisher Comments
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... ( read more)
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
Publisher Comments
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... ( read more)
List Price $14.00
Your price: $8.00
Used - Trade Paper
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by Claire Nouvian
Powells.com Staff Pick
The Deep is one of the most beautiful and bizarre books I've ever seen. You will not be able to put it down, and none of your friends will be able to resist picking it up.
Recommended by Jill, Powells.com... ( read more)
Your price: $45.00
Used - Hardcover
Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam
by Skye Moody
Publisher Comments
Where does it all come from? From tennis shoes, gold doubloons, and rubber ducks to ambergris, seedpods, and dead whales, the ocean gives up many curious prizes. In Washed Up, author Skye Moody walks the coast, dons her wet suit, and heads out to sea to... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $11.50
Used - Trade Paper
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by Michael Capuzzo
Powells.com Staff Pick
Michael Capuzzo has skillfully recreated the summer of 1916,
when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey
shore. Recounting in chilling detail the terrifying attacks, the
ensuing panic, and the incredible hunt for the... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound with CD (Audio)
by David Rothenberg
Publisher Comments
Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and... ( read more)
List Price $27.50
Your price: $18.50
Used - Book W/Audio Cd
Song for the Blue Ocean (97 Edition)
by Carl Safina
Publisher Comments
Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth... ( read more)
List Price $18.00
Your price: $10.00
Used - Trade Paper
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
by Colin Woodard
Publisher Comments
This lively book reveals a little known culture that predates the Pilgrims and has remained true to the earliest version of the American Dream: an egalitarian, self-reliant republic. The self-sufficient lobstermen of the Maine coast are models of... ( read more)
List Price $16.00
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper
Pacific Coast (Audubon Guide)
by Bayard Harlow Mcconnaughey
Publisher Comments
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.... ( read more)
List Price $19.95
Your price: $11.00
Used - Trade Paper
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey
Publisher Comments
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... ( read more)
List Price $25.00
Your price: $7.95
Used - Hardcover
The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
by Robert D Ballard
Publisher Comments
Ballard's perspective on specific events in the history of deep-sea explorations is fresh and exciting. This is an important record of the remarkable progression in technology from extremely primitive underwater diving bells to a multiplicity of manned... ( read more)
List Price $55.00
Your price: $8.00
Used - Hardcover
The Hungry Ocean
by Linda Greenlaw
Publisher Comments
In The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East... ( read more)
List Price $14.00
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper
Oceans: A Visual Guide
by Stephen Hutchinson
Publisher Comments
This is a superb book. The authors are to be commended. Not only did I find the book informative and useful, but as an ichthyhologist fish expert] and former director of a marine conservation non-governmental organization, I learned new information... ( read more)
List Price $39.95
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Salmon Nation: People, Fish, and Our Common Home
by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman
Publisher Comments
"Whether you live in the tiniest village or the largest metropolis, you live in a watershed, an area whose run-off flows via a network of streams through one outlet into a larger body of water such as a river, bay, or ocean. If that watershed drains more... ( read more)
List Price $9.95
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Used - Trade Paper
Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean
by Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher Comments
Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, sea... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your price: $4.00
Used - Trade Paper
Fieldbook of Pacific Northwest Sea Creatures
by Dan H Mclachlan
Publisher Comments
Dan H. McLachlan and Jak Ayres describe over 200 common marine animals shown in their natural habitat with color photos. A short biography accompanies each species pictured, and its biology is explained. The animals are classified by the complexity of... ( read more)
List Price $12.95
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Used - Trade Paper
Manatee
by Rei Ohara
Publisher Comments
Strange looking, slow, and rather fat, manat ees are one of the most endearing creatures on Earth. Manate e is the best photographic book available on these curious a nd endangered mammals. '... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $9.95
Used - Hardcover
Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico
by Peterson
Book News Annotation
A comprehensive guide to all 790 known species in the specified
range, with some 700 illustrations (most in color), 377 distribution
maps and additional line drawings of key details; information range,
habitat, and behavior, and status of endangered... ( read more)
List Price $15.95
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Used - Trade Paper
Sea Otters (Worldlife Library)
by Glenn Van Blaricom
Publisher Comments
Sea otters are one of the most charismatic marine mammals. Capable of living their entire lives free of contact with land, they eat, sleep, and give birth at sea. Hunted relentlessly for centuries, these appealing creatures were brought back from the... ( read more)
List Price $17.95
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Used - Trade Paper
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