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King Richard J.
Ocean Bestiary Meeting Marine Life From Abalone To Orca To Zooplankton
Ocean Bestiary Meeting Marine Life From Abalone To Orca To Zooplankton
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Description: 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 expeditions launched through poems novels and paintings Ocean Bestiary weaves together a diverse array of human voices underrepresented in environmental history to tell the larger story of our relationship with the sea. Sometimes funny sometimes alarming but always compelling King's vignettes reveal both how our perceptions of the sea have changed for the better and how far we still have to go on our voyage.
Title: Ocean Bestiary Meeting Marine Life From Abalone To Orca To Zooplankton
Author(s): King Richard J., Richard J. King
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226818030
Pages: 320 Pages, 93 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/26/2023
Series: Oceans in Depth
Category: Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures
Description: 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 expeditions launched through poems novels and paintings Ocean Bestiary weaves together a diverse array of human voices underrepresented in environmental history to tell the larger story of our relationship with the sea. Sometimes funny sometimes alarming but always compelling King's vignettes reveal both how our perceptions of the sea have changed for the better and how far we still have to go on our voyage.
Title: Ocean Bestiary Meeting Marine Life From Abalone To Orca To Zooplankton
Author(s): King Richard J., Richard J. King
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226818030
Pages: 320 Pages, 93 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/26/2023
Series: Oceans in Depth
Category: Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures