Reevaluates the reach of British imperial power in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

Examines a handful of famous ocean explorers and naturalists--including Jacque Cousteau, Thor Heyerdahl, and Rachel Carson, among others--to demonstrate how the

“It was the first time I’d seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago.” That’s conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking abou

The 2005 hurricane season has made the author's case: public attention is focused as never before on inappropriate coastal development, misuse of wetlands, risk

Photographic reference of marine life found in the coral reefs of the Caribbean, Pacific, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and Indian Oceans.