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Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton (Oceans in Depth) by Richard J. King; Richard J. King is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton (Oceans in Depth) about?

A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking. For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet’s most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and through both text and original illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a celebration of our ongoing quest to know the sea and its creatures. Focusing on individual species or groups of animals, Richard J. King embarks upon a global tour of ocean wildlife, including beluga whales, flying fish, green turtles, mako sharks, noddies, right whales, sea cows (as well as sea lions, sea otters, and sea pickles), skipjack tuna, swordfish, tropicbirds, walrus, and yellow-bellied sea snakes. But more than this, King connects the natural history of ocean animals to the experiences of people out at sea and along the world’s coastlines. From firsthand accounts passed down by the earliest Polynesian navigators to observations from Wampanoag clamshell artists, African-American whalemen, Korean female divers (or haenyeo ), and today’s pilots of deep-sea submersibles—and even to imaginary sea expedi

Who reads Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton (Oceans in Depth)?

Author

Richard J. King; Richard J. King

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226818030

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Nature