Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor
10 best books like Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor (Ben Hellwarth): The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, The Empty Ocean, Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America, The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species, Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters, Reporting World War II Vol. 1: American Journalism 1938-1944, End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica, Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
| Author | Terry Hunt |
| ISBN | 1439150311 |
The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who...
| Author | Richard Ellis |
| ISBN | 1559636378 |
In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted,...
| Author | Juliet Eilperin |
| ISBN | 0375425128 |
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species...
| Author | Eric Simons |
| ISBN | 1590202201 |
"One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the world," at the end of the long trip designed to put as much distance as possible between himself and a frustrating post-college job, Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had...
| Author | Terrie M. Williams |
| ISBN | 1594203393 |
When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the most endangered marine mammal species in U.S. waters, Kauai Pup 2, or...
| Author | Robert Kunzig |
| ISBN | 0393320634 |
The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier,...
| Author | Bruce Parker |
| ISBN | 0230112242 |
The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves...
| Author | Samuel Hynes |
| ISBN | 1883011043 |
This unique 50th anniversary collection recaptures the century's greatest cataclysm and the brilliant generation of American journalists who reported it--nearly 90 writers, the best of a remarkable generation whose talent, sense of purpose, and physical courage remain unsurpassed in the annals...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0792268369 |
End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness....
| Author | Julia Whitty |
| ISBN | 0618119817 |
At the center of Deep Blue Home, a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it, is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the...
| Author | Stephen R. Palumbi |
| ISBN | 1400849934 |
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world--the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal...
| Author | Curtis Ebbesmeyer |
| ISBN | 0061558419 |
“Ebbesmeyer’s goal is noble and fresh: to show how the flow of ocean debris around the world reveals ‘the music’ of the world’s oceans.”
—New York Times Book Review
Through the fascinating stories of flotsam, one of the Earth’s greatest secrets is revealed....
| Author | William Stolzenburg |
| ISBN | 1608191036 |
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands....
| Author | Callum Roberts |
| ISBN | 1597261025 |
Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island...
Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth's surface with an average depth of more than two miles--yet humans had never ventured more than a few hundred feet below the waves. One of the great scientific and...
| Author | Tim Ecott |
| ISBN | 0802139078 |
In Neutral Buoyancy, journalist and diver Tim Ecott takes you on a guided tour of the history of undersea exploration and the emergence of diving culture. He tells the extraordinary story of man's attempts to breathe underwater, from the sponge divers described by Aristotle, to the development of...
| Author | Gabrielle Walker |
| ISBN | 1408811103 |
There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape, for example - but none has managed to capture whole story, till...
| Author | Daniel Lenihan |
| ISBN | 1557045054 |
Adventure nonfiction at its best by the co-author, with Gene Hackman, of Wake of the Perdido Star.
Submerged is Daniel Lenihan's remarkable story of 25 years as founder and head of the Submerged Cultural Resource Unit (SCRU)—ranging from ancient ruins covered by reservoirs in the desert...
| Author | Judy Dutton |
| ISBN | 1401323790 |
This is the engaging true story of kids competing in the high-stakes, high-drama world of international science fairs. Every year the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair brings together 1,500 high schoolers from more than 50 countries to compete for over $4 million dollars in prizes...
| Author | Allen Everett |
| ISBN | 0226224988 |
To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/t...
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe...
| Author | W. David Woods |
| ISBN | 0387716750 |
Between 1968 and 1972, twenty four daring men journeyed from Earth to the Moon. This fascinating book traces what was a massive accomplishment right from the early launches through manned orbital spaceflights, detailing each step. Out of the battlefields of World War II came the gifted German engineers...
| Author | C. Michael Hiam |
| ISBN | 1611685605 |
Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately...
When the Earth Shakes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0670785369 |
Earthquakes,
volcanoes,
tsunamis.
Headline-making natural disasters with devastating consequences for millions of people. But what do we actually know about these literally earth-shaking events?
New York Times bestselling author, explorer, journalist, and geologist...
| Author | Carl Safina |
| ISBN | 0805090401 |
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's "The View from Lazy Point" takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south...
