Ocean Bestiary - Meeting Marine Life From Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton

"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explorers, immigrants, naturalists, writers, painters, and cruiser-sailors-some famous, some entirely unknown and unpublished-this little book examines and shares what it was they saw.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"--

About the author

Richard J. King is visiting professor with the Sea Education Association, founding coeditor of Searchable Sea Literature, and a research associate with the Coastal and Ocean Studies Program of Williams College-Mystic Seaport. Most recently, he is the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "Moby-Dick" and coeditor of Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives with his family in Santa Cruz, CA.

Product details

• Authors: Richard J King, Richard J. King, King Richard J.
• Assisted by: Richard J King (Illustration), Richard J. King (Illustration), King Richard J. (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9780226818030
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81803-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oceans in Depth
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, History of Science, Marine Biology, Wildlife: aquatic creatures: general interest, Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures