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Paradise Cay Publications offers a complete line of nautical Books for navigation and mariner training. We are an authorized print agent for NOAA charts and NGA print-on-demand nautical charts. We're a certified seller of Canadian Hydrographic charts. Our charts and many of our books are printed in-house. Using modern print techniques, we produce high-quality products at a fair price with generous margins for our dealers. Wholesale inquiries welcome.

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PAR014
An invaluable assemblage of forms, procedures, protocols and requirements for entering and leaving the most popular cruising ports in the Pacific. Covers Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Down Under, Mexico, Panama and the Galapagos.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.8 x 8.2
Author: Alan E. Spears
ISBN: 9780939837199
$2995
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SHP361
A much anticipated reissue, in larger format, of the biography of Nathanael G. Herreshoff, who was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. Many of the closely guarded secrets of Captain Nat, the great master, are revealed in these pages. Fully illustrated with historical photos and boat designs.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: L. Francis Herreshoff
ISBN: 9781574092875
$2995
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PGN051
A superb retelling of the tragic story surrounding the 1820 loss of the whale ship Essex, rammed and sunk by a whale in the South Pacific.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780141001821
$1800
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IMR115
Based on previously published cruising notes this guide provides sailing directions for all the countries surrounding the Black Sea. Packed with useful background information and supported by the RCCPF's access to the latest and often changing information this is an essential companion for anyone venturing north from the Bosphorus.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 11.5 x 8 x 0.5
Author: RCCPF/David Read Barker and Lisa Borre
ISBN: 9781846234125
$8395
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HCB078
The perfect incentive for keeping your head in the clouds,  The Cloud Collector's Handbook  is a whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky. Throughout, author and cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun and useful book features gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase a new type of cloud on every spread, from fluffy cumulus to the super rare horseshoe vortex to the wispy noctilucent clouds that hang at the fringes of space. Sure to be a hit with both aspiring and seasoned cloud gazers, this clever handbook will have everyone looking...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7.5
Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
ISBN: 9780811875424
$1695
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IHP_PUB195
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$1995
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PAR017
A summary of the legal requirements, procedures and protocols required upon entering and leaving popular cruising areas in the Caribbean. Includes many of the actual clearance forms. A great aid and time saver for the cruising skipper and crew.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.8 x 8.5
Author: Alan E. Spears
ISBN: 9780939837205
$2495
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INT164
Looks back half a millennium to chronicle the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest of boats-rowboats, canoes, and tiny sailboats like Hugo Vihlen's 6 ft. April Fool. This is history, adventure and seafaring legend of the highest order.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: William Longyard
ISBN: 9780071440295
$2400
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WIL094
Sir Ben Ainslie won his first two Olympic medals (silver, then gold) in the Laser Class. After winning the gold medal he wrote down the secrets that won him that medal in this book. This new edition is published to mark the 20th anniversary of that first of his four Olympic gold medals. It features a brand-new introduction by Ben reflecting on his victory 20 years ago. It is the only how-to book that the world’s most successful Olympic sailor has written and so, while he and the Laser class have moved on, this is the only place where you can gain access to Ben’s skills and thought process. It is an invaluable guide on how to perform at...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 10
Author: Sir Ben Ainslie
ISBN: 9781912621026
$2495
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INT506
The first edition of  Outboard Engines  set the standard for a clear, easy-to-follow primer on engine basics, troubleshooting, care, and repair. This new edition, significantly expanded, brings the subject up to date, with full coverage of the new four-stroke engines, conventional electronic and direct fuel-injection systems, oil-mix systems in the new clean two-strokes, and more. You'll save time and money doing your own engine repairs and maintenance.
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 9.25
Author: Edwin R. Sherman
ISBN: 9781265626808
$4000
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TAB015
In-depth reference for tools, techniques, materials for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models. Illustrations, photos.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.25 x 9
Author: Donald Dressel
ISBN: 9780830628681
$2200
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IMR149
First published in the 1950s Imray's Map of the river above Rochester has always been popular with boaters. There is no other large scale map of the non-tidal section of the Medway above Allington Lock. For the last twenty years the map had been published as part of a guide with a commentary by Derek Bowskill and now this brand new edition reverts to its early successful strip map format. The content has been revised and notes and photographs added by Dave Wise whose experience of navigating the river is as a canoeist. This new edition is printed in colour and packaged in an easy-to-use folded format.
Product Type : Map
Book Type: Map
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
ISBN: 9781846234521
$2095
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INT171
A clear and simple guide to building high quality model ships from kits. Choosing a kit, tools, planking, rigging, lots of shortcuts, tricks and pointers are all treated by this master modeler. 200 illustrations.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.25 x 95
Author: Frank Mastini
ISBN: 9780071558679
$2300
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IMR184
The River Thames Book, now in its seventh edition, is the best-selling guide to the non-tidal Thames from Teddington to its source in Gloucestershire. This complete guide covers the Barrier to Cricklade with the River Wey, Basingstoke Canal and the Kennet & Avon Canal to Great Bedwyn. Chris Cove-Smith's updated text describes the navigation with support of clear and detailed mapping. The River Thames Book also lists in exhaustive detail the facilities to be found along each section of the navigation.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.7 x 9.4
Author: Chris Cove-Smith
ISBN: 9781846237157
$2195
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IHP_PUB105
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 13 x 19
$3995
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IPS299
With the whimsy and heart of The Soul of an Octopus and the surprising details of the very best science writing, The Curious World of Seahorses brilliantly captures the ocean's most charismatic and mysterious inhabitant."When God created the seahorse," says one marine biologist, "he may have had one too many."Of all the creatures in the ocean, there are none more charming and magical - or more strange - than the seahorses. Masters of disguise, graceful dancers, and romantic lovers, seahorses are found not only in the seagrass meadows and mangroves of the world, but also throughout the annals of human history and culture - surfacing...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 0.75 x 7.75"
Author: Till Hein
ISBN: 9781771649889
$2695
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ASA001
Best-selling learn-to-sail manual. Teaches every aspect of basic sailing and coastal cruising with clear, reassuring text and more than 100 photos. Official manual of American Sailing Association. Excellent.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Gary Jobson
ISBN: 9780743273084
$2500
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IHP_PUB160
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$3995
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IMR182
East Coast Pilot has become the bible for cruising sailors for the waters between Great Yarmouth and Ramsgate. Not only does it cover the many harbours, rivers and creeks in a clear and concise manner, it also reveals some of the mysteries of sailing these shallow and shifting coastal waters. Both authors keep their boats on the East Coast and are life-long lovers of the area. They maintain that every time they cast off and take to the water, they learn something new, adding to the considerable wealth of experience which they have passed on enthusiastically over many years. For clarity and ease of reference the book is laid out in a...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Garth Cooper and Dick Holness
ISBN: 9781846239533
$7495
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GPT254
A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. A detailed index of more than 150 lighthouses around the world offers quick and easy access to basic information—know the height, age, elevation, optic type and status for every lighthouse! An appendix listing lighthouse groups nationwide makes it easy to see these historic treasures, visit museums and get involved with...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Ray Jones
ISBN: 9781493029822
$3500
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PAR044
The Trailer Sailer Owner's Manual should be included with every trailerable sailboat. This comprehensive guide to selecting, caring for, and enjoying a trailerable sailboat will answer all your questions about fitting out, care of your sails, launching and retrieval, and boat maintenance. . Easy-to-understand selection guides help you choose the proper sealant/adhesive or antifouling paint. Here you'll find natural alternatives to common toxic cleaning agents, as well as a useful guide to cooking in very small spaces. You'll even learn to make traditional mats from rope while you keep a weather eye on the clouds. . . Click the E-Book icon...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Gregg Nestor
ISBN: 9780939837823
$1795
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PGN345
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...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Ian Urbina
ISBN: 9781101972373
$2100
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INT272
The best, most concise introduction to boat shapes, designs, rigs, features, construction materials, powering options, performance and more for both sail and power. Excellent illustrations.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 95
Author: Edward S. Brewer
ISBN: 9780070076945
$2100
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WIL034
Explains both modern and traditional approaches to navigation. A web site features free online simulators including GPS, radar, AIS and chart plotter.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 8.5
Author: Pat Manley
ISBN: 97804707516133
$3995
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IHP_PUB145
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2995
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FER111
Concentrates on the 67 most common maintenance jobs to be done aboard both power and sailboats. Each is explained in simple steps and illustrated with fine color photos and diagrams. From electrical systems to leaky toilets, all is explained. Excellent and informative.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.3 x 6.7
Author: Pat Manley
ISBN: 9781909911130
$2600
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BMN394D
All the information you'll need to help you get your USCG Captains License Advanced Piloting & Rules of the Road! The Coast Guard License is internationally recognized as one of the ultimate tests of boating ability. It will not only give you the freedom to carry paying passengers on your own vessel, but can be the ticket to many high paying and exciting jobs in the marine world. This program is ideal for mariners seeking a US Coast Guard License as Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels (Six Pack), or 100 Ton Master. To obtain a license, specific requirements are required. Licenses are usually awarded based on the number of years...
Product Type : DVD
ISBN: 97278003949
$2999
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IMR189
Spiral-bound
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6.5 x 9.5
$1495
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PAR009
Everything you need to know about getting yourself and your boat ready for a cruise of weeks or months in Mexican waters. For the practical, hands-on pleasure boat skipper, whether power or sail, you'll find advice on clothing and provisions, recreational and galley equipment, toiletries and medical aids. The authors, veterans of Mexican cruising, guide you through the intricacies of government paperwork, insurance, even crew selection and buddy boats. The second half comprises an alphabetical listing of equipment you are likely to need including electrical, mechanical and navigational gear.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 10.7 x 8.2
Author: Carolyn & Bob Mehaffy
ISBN: 9780939837410
$499
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IMR121
This small book is intended principally as a help to leisure boaters who are not familiar with the Thames through central London. However, Part 2 may well help even the most seasoned of watermen. The length of the river covered is from Margaret Ness in the east, to Putney Bridge in the west. This is the area for which a local knowledge endorsement is required for most commercial skippers. It is a very busy part of the Thames, with every conceivable type of craft likely to be encountered. The book is divided into three parts:. • The first part gives general information and advice, and in passing, mentions local rules which will be...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9.5 x 7.2 x 0.2
Author: Robert Ludlow
ISBN: 9781846234897
$1695
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IPS165
Part journal and part sketchbook, this inspirational, innovative notebook includes stunning photographs and carefully selected quotes to bring you the joy of sitting seaside wherever you hang your hat. Whether you are coastal or landlocked, you can take to the sand as you plan, dream, and doodle. Visual Notebooks from SIME Books and Sunset & Venice help you save and organize your notes and memories to treasure forever. The combination of beautiful photography and blank pages give you the scope and potential to transform this object into a distinctly personal visual journal. The unique natural paper of the cover and interior pages...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 4 x 7
ISBN: 9788831403023
$1495
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NGA_5274
Charts are non-returnable.
Product Type : Chart
Nautical Chart Type: NGA Worldwide Charts
$2495
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IMR048
This new guide provides coverage north from the Humber. A detailed and entertaining guide to the remarkable variety of harbors and havens along the Yorkshire and Northumberland coasts, the pilot is fully illustrated in color with charts and photographs. This guide has been compiled in 2001 from the author's visits. The author's fascinating personal insights complement accurate, up-to-date information on all aspects of this stretch of coastline, making this omnibus an essential addition to any sailing library.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 X 11
Author: Henry Iriving
ISBN: 9780852885789
$4495
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HMY002
What is it that compels us to follow our all-consuming passions? Is it a search for that elusive, genuine happiness that uplifts the spirit and satisfies the soul? But why go cruising? For my husband Robert and I, it was the innate desire to explore our world, escape the rat race and cold winters, while partaking of a truly unique lifestyle. A romantic dream enticed us to sail to warm, secluded beaches in the tropics to spend time swimming and snorkeling in aquarium-like settings, spending time in nature in its least corrupted arena. The ingenuity, perseverance, and hard work that was required by both of us to keep the dream alive and the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Virginia Crane Gleser
ISBN: 9780964724723
$1975
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INT016
Maintenance advice from 100 experts. Outlines weekly, monthly and seasonal maintenance schedules, tips on buying, using specific marine products. Covers cleaning, painting, general cosmetics. Photos.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 7.5 x 95
Author: William Burr Jr.
ISBN: 9780071357036
$3100
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CMP035
This manual/workbook provides the means for an operator to develop an at-a-glance capacity on a stabilized relative motion radar. Once the system of a oeSituation Recognitiona has been achieved and mastered, a multitude of targets can be handled safely and surely, and collision avoidance becomes quite simple. The real method of plotting equips the deck officer to pass the Coast Guard's radar observer test
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Max H. Carpenter
ISBN: 9780870332043
$2000
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SFA001
"As a sailor who raised his daughter aboard, I was touched by this book. Litzow writes from the heart."  - Fatty Goodlander   When marine biologists Mike Litzow and Alisa Abookire decide to follow their dream and sail from Alaska to Australia, they agree that they won't leave until their son, Elias, is one year old. But when he is just ten months old, they give up waiting, strap him down, and set sail. In his deeply personal account of their trip, Mike tells the story of the stress and exhilaration, the closeness of family life on board, and the fierce beauty of the open ocean. Demonstrating a moving affinity with the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Mike Litzow
ISBN: 9780692029268
$1699
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IHP_PUB112
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$6495
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SHP141
Concise, non-technical advice on how to do the job right using contemporary materials and techniques. Covers all paint, varnish situations and application challenges. A fault-finding section deals with when things go wrong. Line drawings and photos.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Nigel Clegg
ISBN: 1574092235
$1995
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IHP_GCG2
Covers Conception Bay to The Enchanted Islands with over 84 anchorages described. For power or sail. Reformatted to 8x10 paperback. Gerry Cunningham's work lives on in our new Legacy Series. We have touched up the layout of this classic guide to make it easier to use. Laminated cover for added durability.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 10
Author: Gerry Cunningham
ISBN: 9781951116125
$2995
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TCP001
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Author: Timothy Crowch
ISBN: 9780957601703
$5495
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STP002
The author departed Brisbane, Australia in June 1984 in his 12 ft. self-designed and built boat to complete a circumnavigation in the smallest yacht yet. An amazing story. Photos.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.75 x 8.25
Author: Serge Testa
ISBN: 9780731648498
$1795
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CPJ002
Ten Years is the love of a young man and a small boat. It is a guide to the waters of America and an instruction for the novice sailor wishing to cruise them.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Gary Sack
ISBN: 9781463581435
$2995
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IHP_PUB114
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
$2295
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PAR040
On 9/11, USN Commander Suzanne Giesemann was aboard the military aircraft Speckled Trout as it flew over the just-demolished Twin Towers. As aide to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she strode beside him through the still-smoldering Pentagon. All those lives gone in an instant, robbed of the chance to live their dreams: would she and her Naval captain husband get to live their own dream?. Click the E-Book icon to get the Kindle version of this title
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: Suzanne Giesemann
ISBN: 9780939837809
$1495
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HON_903
36 x 20 sheet
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 36 x 20
$2000
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HRW005
In 1968 nine sailors set off on the first solo, nonstop circumnavigators' race-possibly the most daring competition ever held. Only one finished. This is the story of each of those sailors, the challenges and hardships they faced, the obsession that drove them.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.25 X 8
Author: Peter Nichols
ISBN: 9780060957032
$1899
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PGN362
A marine biologist vividly brings alive the extraordinary ecosystem of the deep ocean—a realm about which we know less than we do about the Moon—and shows how protecting rather than exploiting it will benefit mankind. “The oceans have always shaped human lives,” writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book  The Brilliant Abyss , but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. “However, one way or another, the future ocean is the deep ocean.” A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway. Revolutionary studies in the deep are rewriting the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is...
Product Type : Book
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Helen Scales
ISBN: 9780802158222
$2700
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IHP_PUB180
This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
$1995
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PAP001
Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Nor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing,...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Author: Elinor DeWire
ISBN: 9781561643912
$2195
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