The Ocean World

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THE OCEAN WORLD—a mystcrious realm filled with beauty and drama—is captured in this magnificent and comprehensive volume, a virtual encyclopedia of the undersea world. No better guide to that world can be found than Jacques Cousteau, its most famous explorer. In the inimitable fashion that has earned him an audience numbering in the hundreds of millions around the world, he sets out the fascinating story of the oceans in fact, lore, and legend.
Nearly every page of the exciting narrative is enhanced by fabulous illustrations from marine photographers, among them images of the tail of a newborn dolphin emerging from its mother; the scarlet egg mass of a nudibranch, shaped like a delicate flower; the splitfin flashlight fish, so called because of the light organ shining beneath its eye; the awesome manta or "devil" ray, flying underwater on its enormous winglike fins; dainty, feathery hydroids, armed with nasty stinging cells; the charming and intelligent sea otter using a rock to... Tovább

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THE OCEAN WORLD—a mystcrious realm filled with beauty and drama—is captured in this magnificent and comprehensive volume, a virtual encyclopedia of the undersea world. No better guide to that world can be found than Jacques Cousteau, its most famous explorer. In the inimitable fashion that has earned him an audience numbering in the hundreds of millions around the world, he sets out the fascinating story of the oceans in fact, lore, and legend.
Nearly every page of the exciting narrative is enhanced by fabulous illustrations from marine photographers, among them images of the tail of a newborn dolphin emerging from its mother; the scarlet egg mass of a nudibranch, shaped like a delicate flower; the splitfin flashlight fish, so called because of the light organ shining beneath its eye; the awesome manta or "devil" ray, flying underwater on its enormous winglike fins; dainty, feathery hydroids, armed with nasty stinging cells; the charming and intelligent sea otter using a rock to crack open a sea urchin for its dinner. There are also illustrations of underwater habitats, of equipment and modes of travel, as well as diagrams.
Eighteen lively chapters cover all aspects of life in the sea: evolution, reproduction, foodget-ting, motion in the sea, communication, attack and defense mechanisms, legends and tales, life in the polar regions and in the abyss, and the future of the oceans.
Man's ancient dream of unlocking the secrets of the sea has been brought closer to reality by Captain Cousteau, who has written of his involvement with the sea: "We want to explore the themes of the ocean's existence—how it moves and breathes, how it experiences dramas and seasons, how it nourishes its hosts of living things, how it harmonizes the physical and biological rhythms of the whole earth, what hurts it and what feeds it—not least of all, what are its stories." This book fulfills the dream.
38S illustrations, including 361 plates in full color Vissza