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The Sea Around Us
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The Sea Around Us

By Rachel Carson ,

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The Edge of the Sea
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The Edge of the Sea

By Rachel Carson ,

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Lady With a Spear: A Young Marine Scientist's Memoir
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Lady With a Spear

By Eugenie Clark ,

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Float: A Novel
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Float

By JoeAnn Hart ,

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Last Song of the Whales
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Last Song of the Whales

By Four Arrows ,

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Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
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Vast Expanses

By Helen M. Rozwadowski ,

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The Deep Range
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The Deep Range

By Arthur C. Clarke ,

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Neptune's Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea
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Neptune's Laboratory

By Antony Adler ,

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Dyschronia
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Dyschronia

By Jennifer Mills ,

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A Life Underwater
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A Life Underwater

By Charlie Veron ,

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Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
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Ocean Outbreak

By Drew Harvell ,

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Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
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Reef Life

By Callum Roberts ,

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Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
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Sea Change

By Sylvia Earle ,

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Ship Fever: Stories
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Ship Fever

By Andrea Barrett ,

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To The Edge Of The World
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To The Edge Of The World

By Julia Green ,

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Wave Rider
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Wave Rider

By Michelle Diener ,

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How to Date Your Brother's Best Friend
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How to Date Your Brother's Best Friend

By Julie Kriss ,

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Hungry as the Sea
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Hungry as the Sea

By Wilbur Smith ,

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Olympic & Titanic: Ocean Liners of the Past
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Olympic & Titanic

By Shipbuilder ,

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Leviathan: Or, The Whale
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Leviathan

By Philip Hoare ,

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A Natural Passion
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A Natural Passion

By Tammy Mannersly ,

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The Mediterranean Caper
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The Mediterranean Caper

By Clive Cussler ,

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The Unnatural History of the Sea
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The Unnatural History of the Sea

By Callum Roberts ,

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Pod
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Pod

By Laline Paull ,

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Weird Fishes
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Weird Fishes

By Rae Mariz ,

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Hotel Megalodon: A Deep Sea Thriller
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Hotel Megalodon

By Rick Chesler ,

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Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
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Below the Edge of Darkness

By Edith Widder ,

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Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-O-War, 1600-1860
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Seamanship in the Age of Sail

By John Harland ,

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Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure On the Coast of Molokai
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Paddling My Own Canoe

By Audrey Sutherland , Yoshiko Yamamoto (illustrator) ,

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The Silent World
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The Silent World

By Jacques Yves Cousteau , Frederic Dumas (photographer) ,

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Between Pacific Tides
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Between Pacific Tides

By Edward F. Ricketts , Jack Calvin ,

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Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
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Life and Death of the Salt Marsh

By John Teal , Mildred Teal ,

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The Science of the Ocean
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The Science of the Ocean

By Dorling Kindersley ,

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The Sea and the Bells
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The Sea and the Bells

By Pablo Neruda , William O'Daly (translator) ,

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