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@lt;p@gt;A @lt;i@gt;New York Times @lt;/i@gt;Notable Book @lt;br@gt;A @lt;i@gt;San Francisco Chronicle @lt;/i@gt;Best Book of the Year @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;In her astonishing new book Susan Casey captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and... [ More...]
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A heart stone is one of nature's gifts. Heart stones are not rare or precious in the typical sense—a good scour of a beach with any stones at all will usually turn up one or two heart-shaped stones. But heart stones, lifted from their obscurity, with... [ More...]
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This book tie-in to National Geographic's ambitious 5-year ocean initiative—focusing on overfishing—is written in National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle's accessible yet hard-hitting voice. Through compelling personal stories she... [ More...]
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Actor Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-1980s to oppose offshore oil drilling near his Southern California neighborhood to his current status as one of the world's most influential oceanic environmental activists.
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Casey follows a unique tribe of extreme surfers as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100-foot wave. In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Laird Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to... [ More...]
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Featuring an Introduction by the grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, this reference to the world's oceans is now in a compact paperback format, ideal for the entire family. Full color.
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Florida has 1200 miles of coastline, almost 700 miles of which are sancy beaches. Exploring along those beaches offers encounters with myriads of plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects—all are covered in this comprehensive guide with... [ More...]
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"The Death and Life of Monterey Bay" is the biography of a place, but also of the residents who reclaimed it. Monterey is thriving because of an eccentric mayor who wasn't afraid to use pistols, axes, or the force of law to protect her coasts. It is because... [ More...]
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The true story of the 1968 oceanic adventure of nine sailors who set off in a race to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop—something that had never been done before—and their obsessive desire to test the limits of human endurance.... [ More...]
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These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.
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