Ocean Bestiary

Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton

Richard J. King (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2023
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-81803-0 (ISBN)

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A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.

For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet’s most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and through both text and original illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a celebration of our ongoing quest to know the sea and its creatures.

Focusing on individual species or groups of animals, Richard J. King embarks upon a global tour of ocean wildlife, including beluga whales, flying fish, green turtles, mako sharks, noddies, right whales, sea cows (as well as sea lions, sea otters, and sea pickles), skipjack tuna, swordfish, tropicbirds, walrus, and yellow-bellied sea snakes. But more than this, King connects the natural history of ocean animals to the experiences of people out at sea and along the world’s coastlines. From firsthand accounts passed down by the earliest Polynesian navigators to observations from Wampanoag clamshell artists, African-American whalemen, Korean female divers (or haenyeo), and today’s pilots of deep-sea submersibles—and even to imaginary sea expeditions launched through poems, novels, and paintings—Ocean Bestiary weaves together a diverse array of human voices underrepresented in environmental history to tell the larger story of our relationship with the sea. Sometimes funny, sometimes alarming, but always compelling, King’s vignettes reveal both how our perceptions of the sea have changed for the better and how far we still have to go on our voyage.

Richard J. King is visiting professor with the Sea Education Association, founding coeditor of Searchable Sea Literature, and a research associate with the Coastal and Ocean Studies Program of Williams College–Mystic Seaport. Most recently, he is the author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” and coeditor of Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives with his family in Santa Cruz, CA.

Series Editors’ Foreword: Oceans in Depth
Introduction
World Map
Abalone
Architeuthis dux
Beluga
Chinstrap Penguin
Dolphinfish
Electric Ray
Flying Fish
Frigatebird
Grampus
Green Turtle
Guanay Cormorant
Halibut
Horse
Isurus oxyrinchus
Juan Fernández Crawfish
Killer Whale
Louisiana Shrimp
Mother Carey’s Chicken
New Zealand Sea Lion
Noddy
Octopus
Otter
Paper Nautilus
Parrot
Pilot Fish
Quahog
Right Whale
Sea Cow
Sea Pickle
Silver King
Teredo Shipworm
Tropicbird
Tuna
Urchin
Velella and the Man-of-War
Walrus
Wandering Albatross
Whale Shark
Xiphias gladius
Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake
Zooplankton
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Oceans in Depth
Illustrationen	Richard J. King
Zusatzinfo	93 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 203 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
ISBN-10	0-226-81803-9 / 0226818039
ISBN-13	978-0-226-81803-0 / 9780226818030
Zustand	Neuware