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xx, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to dunderstand bioluminescence -- the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness -- and what it ells us about the future of life on Earth. Edith Widder's childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist was almost derailed in college when complications from a surgery gone wrong made her temporarily blind. Her new reality of shifting shadows drew her fascination to the...
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Dirk Pitt adventure volume 27
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xi, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
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277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that...
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