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The Ocean Almanac

Robert Hendrickson

出版	Doubleday, 1984
主題	Fiction / GeneralNature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & SeasReference / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / Oceanography
ISBN	03851407709780385140775
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NXXVAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Of course itʼs impossible to contain the ocean in a book, but The Ocean Almanac comes very near to doing just that. This entertaining, informative almanac offers essays, anecdotes, facts and legends, all pertaining to the earthʼs oceans: life in the seven seas, from the humble plankton (the absolute bottom of the food chain and hence the basis of all life on earth) to the mighty blue whale (the largest creature ever to live on the planet); sea monsters, from Jonahʼs ʺgreat fishʺ to Moby Dick; sailorsʼ superstitions (never carry a black seabag; always board a ship right foot first); great ships and seamen, from the fifteenth-century voyages of discovery to contemporary naval commanders; pirates, buccaneers, mutineers and other seafaring outcasts; the riches of the sea, from tuna to petroleum; great sea disasters; ocean and beach sports; seafood recipes; and virtually everything else that one could want to know about the oceans of the world, the creatures who inhabit them and the people who tap their riches.