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Ocean bestiary : meeting marine life from abalone to orca to zooplankton

King, Richard J., author, illustrator

Overview

\"Ocean Bestiary tells the history of our relationship with the sea, one animal at a time, from A to Z. From the earliest Polynesian navigators to the pilots of deep-sea submersibles today, humans have been exploring the globe's most dominant and inaccessible ecosystem and bringing home to those ashore breathtaking accounts of what they observed. Jumping off from the stories of whalemen, pirates, explorers, immigrants, naturalists, writers, painters, and cruiser-sailors-some famous, some entirely unknown and unpublished-this little book examines and shares what it was they saw. Ocean Bestiary crosses a range of geographies and oceanic environments, from shallows to depths and including coral reefs, upwelling zones, and more. It covers an equally wide range of organisms as well, from tiny zooplankton to immense whales. In playful prose, Richard J. King unfurls his stories and their relevance today for our understanding of environmental history, the history of marine biology, and our shifting perceptions of the ocean\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Subject: Marine animals.
• ISBN: 9780226818030

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QL122 .K54 2023	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT