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Encyclopedia of the Sea

Popular Science
By: Richard Ellis(Author)
320 pages, Col illus, b/w illus
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
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  • Encyclopedia of the Sea ISBN: 9780375403743 Hardback Dec 2000 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
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From one of the world's leading experts on the sea comes this ocean-sized compendium of aquatic life and lore. Richard Ellis – who is also recognized as America's foremost painter of marine subjects – gives us a masterful synthesis of years of investigation and tens of thousands of disparate sources. The result is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated, and highly readable reference on almost everything that is known about the sea.

Ellis's research has taken him all over the world – from Nantucket to Patagonia, from Newfoundland to New Zealand. Now he leads us on a great journey: from the amazing diversity of the creatures of the oceans to the birds who inhabit the skies above them; from the little-known realms of marine geography to the men and women who have bravely explored them; from the fabulous legends the sea has inspired through the ages to the intriguing evolution of the tools of nautical navigation.

With more than 450 of the author's own drawings and paintings accompanying the text, Ellis reveals the many wonders of the oceans – abalone, zooxanthellae, and everything in between. We learn about the peculiar behavior of Vampyroteuthis infernalis (the "vampire squid from hell") and about Mocha Dick, the real sperm whale that may have inspired Melville's Moby-Dick; where the crown-of-thorns starfish gets its name and how the rare coelacanth, cousin to a species extinct for 70 million years – and one of the most mispronounced fish in the sea – was rediscovered. We visit lovely and exotic locations from Venice to Ni'ihau (Hawaii's "forbidden isle"), and consider both the fearsome kraken (a mythical sea monster often seen by Scandinavian clergymen) and the notorious real-life pirate Captain Kidd (whose hidden treasure was never found).

Exhaustive, concise, and entertaining, the Encyclopedia of the Sea is invaluable as an all-inclusive, one-volume source for anyone interested in the sea, its inhabitants, and man's exploration of its mysteries.

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Popular Science
By: Richard Ellis(Author)
320 pages, Col illus, b/w illus
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
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