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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	King, Richard J., author, illustrator.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Description:	xi, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Oceans in depth Oceans in depth.
Subject:	Marine animals. Aquatic animals. Marine organisms. Marine animals.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13128434

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ISBN:	9780226818030 0226818039 9780226825809
Provenance:	Includes original dust jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
Summary:	"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explorers, immigrants, naturalists, writers, painters, and cruiser-sailors-some famous, some entirely unknown and unpublished-this little book examines and shares what it was they saw.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"--

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