Julia Whitty
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Provides armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home. At the center of this penetrating exploration of the ocean and the creatures dependent on it is Julia 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 earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human...
Pub. Date
c2002
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Examines the beauty, behavior and preservation of species and discusses the environmental issues facing the oceans including how man is affecting the ocean's delicate balance. Tribes in the sea I records the daily lives of a school of dolphins over a period of seven years. In over our heads depicts the effect humans are having on the sea and the efforts of scientists and environmentalists to save this precious resource.