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Updated May 8, 2025
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The brilliant abyss : true tales of exploring the deep sea, discovering hidden life and selling the seabed
Scales, Helen
Paper Book
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. This is the story of our relationship with it - how we imagine, explore and exploit it.For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre,...
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and Other Sea Life
Scales, Helen/ George, Marcel (ILT)
Paper Book
This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life - whether in our medicine, culture or folklore - in often surprising...
Shark heart : a love story
Habeck, Emily
Paper Book
Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
Widder, Edith
Paper Book
Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned to bioluminescence. On her first visit to the deep ocean, she turned off the lights on her diving suit and...
Sharks in the time of saviors
Washburn, Kawai Strong 1980-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020. A finalist for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by the New York Times (#30), the Guardian, the Boston Globe, Oprah<...
Whalefall : a novel
Kraus, Daniel 1975-
Paper Book
Soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios A USA TODAY BESTSELLER The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "astoundingly great" (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate...

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