The Unnatural History of the Sea

7 best books like The Unnatural History of the Sea (Callum Roberts): Silent Spring, Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells, The Human, the Orchid and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species

Silent Spring

Author	Rachel Carson
ISBN	0618249060

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...

Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish

Author	James Prosek
ISBN	0060566116

Tour through the life history and cultural associations of the freshwater eel, exploring its biology in streams and epic migrations in the ocean, its myth and lore, its mystery and beauty. Prosek travels the globe to tell the story of the eel--from New York to New Zealand; from Europe to Japan and the...

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Author	Paul Greenberg
ISBN	1594202567

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of...

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

Author	Wendy Williams
ISBN	0810984652

Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

Author	Helen Scales
ISBN	1472911369

Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Members of the phylum Mollusca are among the most ancient animals on the planet. Their shells provide homes for other animals, and across...

The Human, the Orchid and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World

Author	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
ISBN	1596914173

Part adventure story, part manifesto, the legendary ocean explorer's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.

Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the...

Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species

Author

Sean B. Carroll

An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.

 

Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’...