Oceans Seas category: 226 books

From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet. In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new...

Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself:...

A New York Times Bestseller A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016 Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian—with a little help from the “natural navigator”!   In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural...

This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea. In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures and birds that dwell in and around the waters...

“The best survival book in a decade” (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 • Scientific American Recommended Read “Fascinating, informative, exhilarating.” —Wall Street Journal Deep is a voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious...

In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some...

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty" (New York Herald Tribune) A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature...

**研究古代歷史，不可不知地中海；綜觀今時國際，不可不知大西洋 想掌握未來世界，一定要了解太平洋！ 從日不落國至日落帝國的黃昏，殖民到獨立的世界新秩序形成 政治分斷、軍事角逐、氣候變遷、能源環境、物種發現的新研究 太平洋──絕非「太平無事」的海洋 這片美麗、脆弱、巨大的海洋 面臨諸多潛在挑戰與危機，左右著人類的前途 《紐約時報》暢銷書作家　溫契斯特 繼膾炙人口的暢銷書《大西洋》《美國統一功臣》後，最新力作 精彩而生動地探討太平洋的過去、現在，以及它所牽動的未來 深究太平洋現代史上十大關鍵事件 風靡西方國家的電晶體收音機、衝浪活動、化學武器汙染、極端氣候、深海熱泉、珊瑚白化、南北韓分裂、香港回歸、澳洲政局、南海爭奪等** 太平洋廣大得令人難以想像，它是迄今世上最大水域，覆蓋地球表面積近三分之一，對全球的影響亦十分巨大：不僅是世界氣候模式的源頭，也是最危險板塊碰撞運動的核心，海面下一萬多公尺處更有全球最深的海溝。它是西方人發現的最後一座海洋，也是牽引世界前途的大洋，這片幅員廣達1.8億平方公里的水域所發生的一切，攸關著人類全體的命運。 知名作家與探險家溫契斯特，詳述這片複雜得令人目不暇給的巨洋，自1950年代以降所經歷的種種關鍵時刻，以及影響迄今的重大趨勢和事件。讀者首先看到比基尼環礁舉行原子彈試爆後，因遭輻射汙染而成為徒留某種超現實景觀的無人島。書中除了介紹令全球年輕人趨之若鶩的衝浪活動由來背景，也揭露小型電晶體收音機如何點燃從日本東京延燒到美國矽谷的數位革命，進而改變人類的生活，還提到澳洲大堡礁的驚人發現和海底神祕噴口的探勘活動，對於太平洋周邊領土的地緣政治變化、流氓國家北韓的興起、英國殖民時代的結束亦有所著墨，並兼論環境惡化與氣候變遷為這個龐大水域帶來的威脅。 溫契斯特長期接觸太平洋及周邊區域，憑藉淵博的歷史學識和無人能出其右的敘事長才，以生動的文筆為這片浩瀚無垠、美麗神祕、引人遐思的大海寫下這部禮讚之作。 《不平靜的太平洋》首先揭露太平洋絕非「太平無事」的海洋，它其實是個原子海。第二章敘述電晶體收音機的發明和索尼公司的成立經過。第三章提到令全世界年輕人趨之若鶩的衝浪活動。第四章描述早年的北韓政權極度渴望自食其力，邁向經濟與文化獨立，如今該政權因國內政治殘暴、國際行為乖張而淪為笑柄，它持續不斷對外挑釁固然讓今日的太平洋蒙塵，卻具有關鍵性的影響力。隨著殖民列強在擾嚷不安中陸續撤出太平洋區，近年來日本人與其他原住民──美洲印第安人、澳洲土著、毛利人、太平洋諸島居民──又重新投入太平洋事務的運作。第五章以一艘英國遠洋郵輪在太平洋英屬殖民地海域發生重大火災事故拉開序幕，接著提到法國人撤出中南半島、美國人撤離越南、荷蘭人與葡萄牙人揮別其他殖民地，以及領土遍布世界的大英帝國放棄各處殖民地以後，太平洋居民終於獲得早在幾百年前就該享有的自主權。第七章探討澳洲將來會扮演何種角色，會不會在短期之內、長期之後，或是永久、持續運用某種區域勢力？ 第六、第八、第九章論及太平洋是形成世界氣候模式的根源，以及爆發危險板塊運動的核心，它蘊藏了大量可供全世界掠奪或維護的海底資源，卻首當其衝遭遇了全球難以逃避的環境危機。第十章是最值得關注的話題：中國。 ※...

Since 1871 the Cape Hatteras lighthouse has been a welcome sight for sailors entering the treacherous region off North Carolina's Outer Banks known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. At 208 feet high, it is the tallest lighthouse in the country and one of the state's most famous landmarks. Through...

“Not since Jacques Cousteau has anyone brought us the sense of the ocean as our home . . . Far more than a science book.” -San Francisco Book Review Gordon Chaplin’s father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and transformed himself into...

“The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movies and literature, but in countless permutations of size, shape, and materials, permeating our daily lives with their silent menace. In a sense, humans...

This Prospective Guide isn’t here to hold your hand and walk you step-by-step through your adventure. Because that’s not adventure. No, this guide is here to offer some perspective. To share some tales. To offer a few opinions. To help you decide on which path to take. But the joy remains in...

“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon...