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Pub. Date
1995
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This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Annotation. In 1940, Steinbeck and his friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, ventured into the Gulf of California to search for marine invertebrates along the beaches. This exciting, day-by-day account of their trip, drawn from the longer...
2) Deep water
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
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Aleksandr Kasianenko, a billionaire Russian oligarch, as he sets sail on The Bianca. Youĺl meet Bianca his supermodel girlfriend, Hammond Patterson, a driven Senator and his lovely wife, Sierra, Cliff Baxter, a movie star and his girlfriend, Lori; Taye Sherwin, a famous footballer and his wife, Ashley, Luca Perez, a singing sensation with his older decadent English boyfriend, Jeromy. If you like romance,danger and intrigue with a lot of naughtiness...
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"The first book about the BP disaster by a world-renowned oceanographer, A SEA IN FLAMES examines the environmental and social consequences of the spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it. It will be published on the one-year anniversary of the spill, in April 2011. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is among the greatest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Carl Safina's Blowout provides an extraordinary perspective on it. Consisting...
6) Derby's report on opening the Colorado, 1850-1851: From the original report of George Horatio Derby
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Pub. Date
[1969]
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This book (completely reset in newe type) reprints Senate Document 81, 32nd Congress, lst Session, 1852, then entitle Reconnoissance of the Gulf of California and the Colorado River. The original map and all illustrations are included. Anyone interested in the history of the Southwest, the lore of the great Colorado, or Bajo California, will find Derby's report an interesting and important addition to his private library.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old...
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Pub. Date
2009
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"The collaboration of two friends -- one a novelist, one a marine biologist -- produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to...
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c2012
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In March 1940, the author John Steinbeck and his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, sailed down the coast of California and Mexico to the Sea of Cortez. Their stated purpose was to document the creatures that inhabit shallow waters and tide pools on the margins of the Sea of Cortez. But it became much more. In these mysterious, phosphorescent waters, they sought an understanding of mankind's relationship to the natural world, and a wellspring of...