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Admiral of the Ocean Sea : A Life of Christopher Columbus;
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Samuel Eliot Morison;

Paperback;

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Synopsis:
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, a handsome new paperback edition of Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the greatest sailor of them all. "A splendid achievement."--The New

Alaska's Ocean Highways : A Travel Adventure Aboard Northern Ferries;
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Sherry Simpson, et al;

Paperback; $19.95

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Kelley takes readers on an armchair journey through the Inside Passage, a thousand miles of natural wonders. Simpson chronicles a trip along the romantic mainline route from Bellingham to Skagway, as well as describing the seagoing life of crew members, the history of the ferry system, and the character and charm of rural ferry routes. 100 color photos. 4 maps. Size C. Author media.

Albatross : The True Story of a Woman's Survival at Sea;
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Deborah Scaling Kiley, et al;

Hardcover;

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One late summer's day, the yacht Trashman set sail for Annapolis to Florida with Deborah Scaling and four others aboard. When the boat sailed into a gale, it went down, leaving the crew in a storm-tossed dinghy surrounded by sharks. Now Deborah Scaling tells the true story of how she survived this harrowing ordeal.

Atlantic Seafaring : Ten Centuries of Exploration and Trade in the North Atlantic;
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Roger Morris;

Hardcover;

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Here is a sweeping history of the opening of the North Atlantic, from Norse voyages to medieval ships to the slave trade to great clippers. Roger Morris is a marine painter and historian whose hard historical facts, collloquial anecdotes and more than 100 drawings, most in color, make a compellingly handsome and acclaimed work. Size D. ($34.95 after January l, 1993.)

Book News, Inc., 12/01/93:
Maritime artist Morris combines beautiful, detailed paintings with an engaging, well-researched text to illustrate some of the sailing ships which were engaged in exploration, settlement, and trade across the North Atlantic, and relate some of the events in which they were involved. 11.25x8.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Rand McNally and Company, et al;

Hardcover;

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Book News, Inc., 06/01/95:
A revised edition of Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans (1977, Mitchell Beazley, UK). A carefully prepared, abundantly illustrated reference covering the genesis of the world's oceans and ocean exploration, life, and resources. It includes 60 pages of maps detailing the shapes of the ocean basins, patterns of circulation, and resource distribution, as well as a catalog of the main families of marine life illustrated with some 130 line drawings. Lacks references. 9x12" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Bring Me the Ocean : Nature As Teacher, Messenger, and Intermediary;
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Rebecca A. Reynolds, Rebecca Reynolds;

Hardcover;

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Demonstrating the impact of the natural world on each of us, this book weaves a tapestry of poignant lessons humanity and caregiving, while immersing the reader in seasonal themes comprised of wildlife and domestic animals, plants, and minerals, music and the arts.

Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft;
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Timothy Severin, et al;

Hardcover

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The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discover North America as early as 218 B.C., when the great sea captain Hsu Fu set sail in search of the elixir of immortality. Full-color inserts.

The Discovery of the Titanic;
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Robert D. Ballard, Rick Archbold;

Paperback;

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Here is the first-hand account of Dr. Ballard's quest to find the Titanic. Including rare archival photos and charts, this volume recounts the Titanic's tragic last night and describes the drama of the expedition that finally found and explored her. Plus Dr. Ballard reveals the ship's location and lays to rest many of its mysteries. 48-page color insert.

Hidden Latitudes : A Novel;
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Alison Anderson; Hardcover;

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Amazon.com Books:
A novel that offers a possible solution to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Hidden Latitudes finds her as an elderly castaway, stranded for more than 40 years on an unknown island. When a damaged sailboat approaches the island, Earhart considers lighting a signal fire as she has done each time a ship was near, but then she has second thoughts, wondering whether a rescue would still be worth it. As she secretly watches Robin and Lucy repair their boat, she struggles with whether to leave the island that's become her home or re-enter the world from which she came, a place that now seems unknown and dangerous

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The Atlantic Ocean (New True Books) ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Susan Heinrichs / School & Library Binding / Published 1986 Our Price: $13.30 ~ You Save: $5.70 (30%) Read more about this title... The Atlantic Ocean (Seas and Oceans Series) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Julia Waterlow / Library Binding / Published 1996 Our Price: $24.25 Read more about this title... Atlantic Seafaring : Ten Centuries of Exploration and Trade in the North Atlantic ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Roger Morris / Hardcover / Published 1992 Our Price: $24.47 ~ You Save: $10.48 (30%) Read more about this title... Capsize : A Story of Survival in the North Atlantic ~ Ships in 2-3 days Nicolas Angel / Hardcover / Published 1981 Our Price: $11.16 ~ You Save: $4.79 (30%) Deep Atlantic : Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss ~ Ships in 2-3 days Richard Ellis / Hardcover / Published 1996 Our Price: $24.50 ~ You Save: $10.50 (30%) Read more about this title... The Defeat of the German U-Boats : The Battle of the Atlantic (Studies in Maritime History) ~ Ships in 2-3 days David Syrett / Hardcover / Published 1994 Our Price: $39.95 Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters ~ Ships in 2-3 days James E. Bohlke, Charles C.G. Chaplin / Hardcover / Published 1993 Our Price: $125.00 Phantom Islands of the Atlantic : The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were ~ Ships in 2-3 days Donald S. Johnson / Hardcover / Published 1996 Our Price: $14.70 ~ You Save: $6.30 (30%) Read more about this title... Secret Weapon : U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic ~ Ships in 2-3 days Kathleen Broome Williams / Hardcover / Published 1996 Our Price: $24.50 ~ You Save: $10.50 (30%) Read more about this title... To Die Gallantly : The Battle of the Atlantic (History and Warfare) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Timothy J. Runyan, Jan M. Copes (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1994 Our Price: $18.75 Read more about this title... U-Boat Commander : A Periscope View of the Battle of the Atlantic ~ Ships in 2-3 days Peter Cremer / Hardcover / Published 1984 Our Price: $18.17 ~ You Save: $7.78 (30%) American Steamships on the Atlantic Cedric. Ridgely-Nevitt / Hardcover / Published 1981 Our Price: $85.00 (Special Order) An Assessment of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Paperback / Published 1994 Our Price: $29.00 (Back Ordered) Atlantic Alcidae Tim R. Birkhead / Paperback / Published 1985 Our Price: $55.00 (Special Order) Atlantic Alcidae : The Evolution, Distribution and Biology of the Auks Inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean and Adjacent Water Areas David N. Nettleship, Tim R. Birkhead (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1986 Our Price: $89.00 (Special Order) The Atlantic Gray Whale (Gone Forever) Jan Mell / Library Binding / Published 1989 Our Price: $12.95 (Back Ordered) Read more about this title... The Atlantic Ocean School & Library Binding / Published 1986 (Special Order) Read more about this title... Atlantic Ocean (World Bibliographical Series, No 61) H.G.R. King / Hardcover / Published 1986 Our Price: $65.00 (Special Order) Atlantic Reef Corals; A Handbook of the Common Reef and Shallow-Water Corals of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Florida, the West Indies, and Brazil Frederick George Walton Smith / Hardcover / Published 1971 Our Price: $10.95 (Special Order) Battle of the Atlantic (World War II 50th Anniversary Series) Wallace B. Black, Jean F. Blashfield / Library Binding / Published 1991 Our Price: $12.95 (Back Ordered) Read more about this title... Deep Drilling Results in the Atlantic Ocean : Continental Margins and Paleoenvironment 2D, Harriman, N.Y., 1978. Maurice Ewing Symposium / Hardcover / Published 1979 Our Price: $23.00 (Special Order) Fishwatchers Guide to West Atlantic Coral Reefs Charles C. Chaplin / Hardcover / Published 1979 (Publisher Out Of Stock) Fishwatchers Guide to West Atlantic Coral Reefs : With Coral Identification Plate by Charles C. G. Chaplin ; Illustrated by Peter Scott Charles C. Chaplin, Peter Markham Scott / Paperback / Published 1979 Our Price: $8.76 ~ You Save: $2.19 (20%) (Special Order) Fishwatchers Guide to West Atlantic Coral Reefs : With Coral Identification Plate by Charles C. G. Chaplin ; Illustrated by Peter Scott Charles C. Chaplin, Peter Markham Scott / Paperback / Published 1979 Our Price: $10.95 (Special Order) Geologic Evolution of Atlantic Continental Rises C. Wylie Poag, Pierre Charles De Graciansky (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1992 Our Price: $94.15 ~ You Save: $40.35 (30%) (Special Order) How the Sea Began : A Taino Myth ~ Ships in 2-3 days George Crespo / School & Library Binding / Published 1993 Our Price: $10.46 ~ You Save: $4.49 (30%) Read more about this title... I Am the Ocean Vol 1 ~ Ships in 2-3 days Suzanna Marshak, James Endicott (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1992 Our Price: $10.46 ~ You Save: $4.49 (30%)

A 3-D Look at Oceans ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Keith Faulkner, Robert Morton (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1997 Our Price: $8.36 ~ You Save: $3.59 (30%) Animals of the Oceans (Animals by Habitat) ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Stephen Savage / Library Binding / Published 1997 Our Price: $21.40 Read more about this title... The Earth Is Mostly Ocean (Rookie Read-About Science) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Allan Fowler / School & Library Binding / Published 1995 Our Price: $12.11 ~ You Save: $5.19 (30%) Exploring an Ocean Tide Pool (A Redfeather Book) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Jeanne Bendick, Todd Telander (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1994 Our Price: $5.56 ~ You Save: $1.39 (20%) Read more about this title... Goldie and the Sea ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Judith Saltman, Kim Lafave (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1991 Our Price: $4.95 Gurgle Bubble Splash ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Richard Thompson, Eugenie Fernandes / School & Library Binding / Published 1989 Our Price: $9.06 ~ You Save: $3.89 (30%) I Swim an Ocean in My Sleep ~ Ships in 2-3 days Norma Farber, Elivia Savadier (Illustrator) / School & Library Binding / Published 1997 Our Price: $10.46 ~ You Save: $4.49 (30%) Read more about this title... I Wonder Why the Sea Is Salty : And Other Questions About the Oceans (I Wonder Why) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Anita Ganeri, Tony Kenyon (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1995 Our Price: $6.96 ~ You Save: $2.99 (30%) Legendary Islands of the Ocean Sea ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Robert H. Fuson / Hardcover / Published 1995 Our Price: $17.47 ~ You Save: $7.48 (30%) Life in the Oceans ~ Ships in 2-3 days Lucy Baker / Paperback / Published 1993 Our Price: $3.96 ~ You Save: $0.99 (20%) Read more about this title... The Little Boat ~ Ships in 2-3 days Kathy Henderson, Patrick Benson (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1995 Our Price: $11.16 ~ You Save: $4.79 (30%) Read more about this title... The Living Ocean (Earth at Risk) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Elizabeth Collins, Russell E. Train (Introduction) / Library Binding / Published 1994 Our Price: $19.95 Look Inside the Ocean (A Poke & Look Learning Book) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Laura Crema, Patrizia Malfatti (Translator) / Hardcover / Published 1993 Our Price: $9.06 ~ You Save: $3.89 (30%) Read more about this title... Lucy and the Sea Monster (Usborne Young Puzzle Adventures) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Karen Dolby, Caroline Church (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1994 Our Price: $3.96 ~ You Save: $0.99 (20%) The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor ~ Ships in 2-3 days Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1994 Our Price: $3.96 ~ You Save: $0.99 (20%) Read more about this title... Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor ~ Ships in 2-3 days Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen (Illustrator) / School & Library Binding / Published 1992 Our Price: $11.16 ~ You Save: $4.79 (30%) Read more about this title... The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Joanna Cole / Unknown Binding / Published 1994 Our Price: $10.30 Read more about this title... Make a Splash! (A Lighter Look Book) ~ Ships in 1-2 weeks Thompson Yardley, Thomas Yardley / Library Binding / Published 1992 Our Price: $14.90 Read more about this title... Marine Biology (Real Kids, Real Science Books) ~ Ships in 2-3 days Ellen Doris, Len Rubenstein (Photographer) / Hardcover / Published 1993 Our Price: $11.87 ~ You Save: $5.08 (30%) Read more about this title... The Mermaid and Other Sea Poems : And Other Sea Poems ~ Ships in 2-3 days Sophie Windham (Editor) / School & Library Binding / Published 1996 Our Price: $11.87 ~ You Save: $5.08 (30%) Read more about this title... Moonsnail Song ~ Ships in 2-3 days Sheryl McFarlane / Hardcover / Published 1994 Our Price: $10.46 ~ You Save: $4.49 (30%) Read more about this title...