Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton

by Richard J. King

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226818039
• ISBN13: 9780226818030
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.1"