Author :
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Atlas of the oceans showing the environmental status of all the world's oceans, resources, topographical features, threatened species, and more.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0744091543
An illustrated guide to the geography, geology, and life in the world's oceans. Take a dive into the world's oceans to discover their physical features and wildlife, and threats to their future. How do waves form? Where is the deepest part of the ocean? What is a black smoker? What would the ocean floor look like without water? What lives in a coral reef? All these questions and more are answered in The Oceans Atlas - an illustrated guide to Earth's oceans. Explore key features of the oceans from sea floor to surf, including tides and trenches, currents and coastline, volcanoes and vents. Discover the variety of marine life from the biggest sharks and whales to the tiniest invertebrates and polyps. Find out the human impact on our seas and how we can create a healthier and cleaner future. Luciano Corbella's hand-drawn illustrations allow you to see parts of the planet that can't be shown in photographs, with diagrams clearly annotated to help explain what's going on.
Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0451492951
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author : Michael L. Weber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393037647
An adjunct to "Ocean Planet", a major traveling exhibition opening at the Smithsonian Institution in 1995, this fascinating book is the first to explore the newest discoveries in oceanography and marine ecology in the context of the global economy and human population growth. For thousands of years humanity has seen the oceans as a mysterious, and limitless, source of treasures to be fished, harvested, mined, and salvaged. Now accelerating developments in ocean studies offer a new understanding of the oceans, their role in a global ecosystem, and their vulnerability to threats from human action. Drawing on the latest research, this book offers a fascinating tour of the complex reaches of our ocean world and points the way toward changes that will preserve, rather than squander, the wealth of oceans.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN :
Author : Emily Hawkins
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711245304
From the team behind the best-selling Atlas of Adventures comes the deepest adventure yet - a trip through the oceans of the world to discover creatures of the deep and see the unique environments in which they live.
Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0143126679
A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.
Author : Random House (Firm)
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780375719523
A complete world reference and atlas in a convenient size! This fully up-to-date, handy atlas is perfect for use at home, school, college, and office: *160 pages of brand-new, full-color maps and illustrations *Authoritative maps cover countries, regions, cities and towns, and major transportation routes *Up-to-date and accurate, including the latest geographical changes *Revised and expanded index includes over 25,000 place names *Includes geographic data for all independent nations and territories of the world, full-color country flags, and information on climates, populations and more
Author : Michiel Roscam Abbing
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1642830089
Plastics have transformed every aspect of our lives. Yet the very properties that make them attractive—they are cheap to make, light, and durable—spell disaster when trash makes its way into the environment. Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution is a beautifully-illustrated survey of the plastics clogging our seas, their impacts on wildlife and people around the world, and inspirational initiatives designed to tackle the problem. In Plastic Soup, Michiel Roscam Abbing of the Plastic Soup Foundation reveals the scope of the issue: plastic trash now lurks on every corner of the planet. With striking photography and graphics, Plastic Soup brings this challenge to brilliant life for readers. Yet it also sends a message of hope; although the scale of the problem is massive, so is the dedication of activists working to check it. Plastic Soup highlights a diverse array of projects to curb plastic waste and raise awareness, from plastic-free grocery stores to innovative laws and art installations. According to some estimates, if we continue on our current path, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by the year 2050. Created to inform and inspire readers, Plastic Soup is a critical tool in the fight to reverse this trend.
Author : Mark Spalding
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780997706901
The Atlas of Ocean Wealth is the largest collection to date of information about the economic, social and cultural values of coastal and marine habitats from all over the world. It is a synthesis of innovative science, led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with many partners around the world. Through these efforts, we've gathered vast new datasets from both traditional and less likely sources.
