Fathoms: The World in the Whale
By: Rebecca Giggs
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australi…
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1. Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
By: Donovan Hohn
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. A New York Times Notable Book of 2011. On… read more
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2. Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
By: None
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The orca--otherwise known as the killer whale--is one of earth's most intelligent animals. Remarkab… read more
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4. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.07
Format: None pages,
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the traject… read more
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5. Wanderlust: A History of Walking
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
This volume provides a history of walking, exploring the relationship between thinking and walking … read more
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6. Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
By: William McKeever
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel m… read more
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"The salt in the sea is the same as the salt in our blood"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
"Taking into account fair labor wages for fishermen and canning employees- and the damage inflicted to the ocean through overfishing and the ecological impact of the slow annihilation of sharks- a sin…"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
"If we act today, we can ensure that our children will look out on the ocean and know underneath the surface, a shark will be swimming, standing guard over its dominion, protecting the ocean, the grea…"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
"Society's lack of compassion for our fellow people and for animals leads to an ocean where sharks are dying by the millions and slaves are being abused by the thousands. The connection is basic: a di…"-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
8. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
9. The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants
By: Leigh Calvez
3.85
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the P… read more
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10. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
By: Tom Mustill
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more
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"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
11. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
By: Dan Levitt
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more
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12. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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13. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
14. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
By: Nick Pyenson
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more
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"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
15. Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
By: Emma Marris
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relatio… read more
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"The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
"I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
"It was when I moved to Oregon in 2013 that I really began to examine how conservation did and did not make the lives of individual animals better."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
"But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild animals' left."-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
16. Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
By: Edith Widder
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the l… read more
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17. Fathoms: The World in the Whale
By: Rebecca Giggs
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australi… read more
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18. Storia di mia vita
By: Janek Gorczyca
3.53
Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition
La storia di Janek, un polacco che vive a Roma da più di trent’anni, senza casa, senza documenti o … read more
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19. The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
By: Laura Trethewey
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and… read more
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20. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
21. Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
By: Juli Berwald
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us all Coral reefs are … read more
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