Author: Murray Hoyt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shells
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A guide for the shell collector as he progresses from dead to live specimens. Includes chapters on the most valuable shells and best shell collecting for mollusks, bivalves, and univalves, and instructions on processing and cataloging, as well as buying, selling, trading.
Jewels from the Ocean Deep
Author: Murray Hoyt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shells
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A guide for the shell collector as he progresses from dead to live specimens. Includes chapters on the most valuable shells and best shell collecting for mollusks, bivalves, and univalves, and instructions on processing and cataloging, as well as buying, selling, trading.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shells
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A guide for the shell collector as he progresses from dead to live specimens. Includes chapters on the most valuable shells and best shell collecting for mollusks, bivalves, and univalves, and instructions on processing and cataloging, as well as buying, selling, trading.
Amazing Jellies
Author: Elizabeth Tayntor Gowell
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593730208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of jellies.
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593730208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of jellies.
Ocean
Author: Sabrina Weiss
Publisher: What on Earth Books
ISBN: 9781999968076
Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Ocean: Secrets of the Deep is jam-packed with 100s of stylish illustrations, infographics and surprising facts about the world's marine life
Publisher: What on Earth Books
ISBN: 9781999968076
Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Ocean: Secrets of the Deep is jam-packed with 100s of stylish illustrations, infographics and surprising facts about the world's marine life
Expedition Deep Ocean
Author: Josh Young
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136771
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The riveting story of the exploration of the final frontier of our planet—the deep ocean—and history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five seas. Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain largely a mystery: the deep oceans. At over 36,000 feet deep, there areas closest to earth’s core have remained nearly impossible to reach—until now. Technological innovations, engineering breakthroughs and the derring-do of a team of explorers, led by explorer Victor Vescovo, brought together an audacious global quest to dive to the deepest points of all five oceans for the first time in history. The expedition pushed technology to the limits, mapped hidden landscapes, discover previously unknown life forms and began to piece together how life in the deep oceans effects our planet—but it was far from easy. Expedition Deep Ocean is the inside story of this exploration of one of the most unforgiving and mysterious places on our planet, including the site of the Titanic wreck and the little-understood Hadal Zone. Vescovo and his team would design the most advanced deep-diving submersible ever built, where the pressure on the sub is 8 tons per square inch—the equivalent of having 292 fueled and fully loaded 747s stacked on top of it. And then there were hurricane-laden ocean waters and the byzantine web of global oceanography politics. Expedition Deep Ocean reveals the marvelous and other-worldly life found in all five deep ocean trenches, including several new species that have posed as of yet unanswered questions about survival and migration from ocean to ocean. Then there are the newly discovered sea mounts that cause tsunamis when they are broken by shifting subduction plates and jammed back into the earth crust, something that can now be studied to predict future disasters. Filled with high drama, adventure and the thrill of discovery, Expedition Deep Ocean celebrates courage and ingenuity and reveals the majesty and meaning of the deep ocean.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136771
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The riveting story of the exploration of the final frontier of our planet—the deep ocean—and history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five seas. Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain largely a mystery: the deep oceans. At over 36,000 feet deep, there areas closest to earth’s core have remained nearly impossible to reach—until now. Technological innovations, engineering breakthroughs and the derring-do of a team of explorers, led by explorer Victor Vescovo, brought together an audacious global quest to dive to the deepest points of all five oceans for the first time in history. The expedition pushed technology to the limits, mapped hidden landscapes, discover previously unknown life forms and began to piece together how life in the deep oceans effects our planet—but it was far from easy. Expedition Deep Ocean is the inside story of this exploration of one of the most unforgiving and mysterious places on our planet, including the site of the Titanic wreck and the little-understood Hadal Zone. Vescovo and his team would design the most advanced deep-diving submersible ever built, where the pressure on the sub is 8 tons per square inch—the equivalent of having 292 fueled and fully loaded 747s stacked on top of it. And then there were hurricane-laden ocean waters and the byzantine web of global oceanography politics. Expedition Deep Ocean reveals the marvelous and other-worldly life found in all five deep ocean trenches, including several new species that have posed as of yet unanswered questions about survival and migration from ocean to ocean. Then there are the newly discovered sea mounts that cause tsunamis when they are broken by shifting subduction plates and jammed back into the earth crust, something that can now be studied to predict future disasters. Filled with high drama, adventure and the thrill of discovery, Expedition Deep Ocean celebrates courage and ingenuity and reveals the majesty and meaning of the deep ocean.
The Literary Garland
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Crown Jewels
Author: Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Brilliant Abyss
Author: Helen Scales
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 0802158242
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist known for “nature writing at its most engaging” (Sunday Express). A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet, its topography even more varied and extreme than its landmass counterpart. Teeming with unsuspected life, an extraordinary, interconnected ecosystem deep below the waves has a huge effect on our daily lives, influencing climate and weather systems, with the potential for much more—good or bad, depending on how it is exploited. Currently, the fantastic creatures that live in the deep—many of them incandescent in a world without light—and its formations capture and trap vast quantities of carbon that would otherwise poison our atmosphere, and novel bacteria as yet undiscovered hold the promise of potent new medicines. Yet the deep also holds huge mineral riches lusted after by nations and corporations; mining them could ultimately devastate the planet, compounded by the deepening impacts of ubiquitous pollutants and rampant overfishing. Eloquently and passionately, the author of Spirals in Time and Eye of the Shoal brings to life the majesty and mystery of an alien realm that nonetheless sustains us, while urgently making clear the price we could pay if it is further disrupted. The Brilliant Abyss is at once a revelation and a clarion call to preserve this vast unseen world.
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 0802158242
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist known for “nature writing at its most engaging” (Sunday Express). A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet, its topography even more varied and extreme than its landmass counterpart. Teeming with unsuspected life, an extraordinary, interconnected ecosystem deep below the waves has a huge effect on our daily lives, influencing climate and weather systems, with the potential for much more—good or bad, depending on how it is exploited. Currently, the fantastic creatures that live in the deep—many of them incandescent in a world without light—and its formations capture and trap vast quantities of carbon that would otherwise poison our atmosphere, and novel bacteria as yet undiscovered hold the promise of potent new medicines. Yet the deep also holds huge mineral riches lusted after by nations and corporations; mining them could ultimately devastate the planet, compounded by the deepening impacts of ubiquitous pollutants and rampant overfishing. Eloquently and passionately, the author of Spirals in Time and Eye of the Shoal brings to life the majesty and mystery of an alien realm that nonetheless sustains us, while urgently making clear the price we could pay if it is further disrupted. The Brilliant Abyss is at once a revelation and a clarion call to preserve this vast unseen world.
Gems for You
Author: Frederick A. Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Gems of Poetry for Those We Love. Consisting of the Choicest Productions of the Present Day
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Gems of Poetry
Author: Amelia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description