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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation.

From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, David Abulafia's new book guides listeners along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian - which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and, of course, people across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under...

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to...

What happens when the ocean refuses to give up its dead? The sea is a vast, unforgiving wilderness, and for centuries it has been the setting for some of history’s most baffling and tragic mysteries. From the deck of the world's most infamous ghost ship to the crushing depths of the Atlantic, this book uncovers the chilling true stories of the vessels and souls that vanished without a trace. Step aboard the Mary Celeste, found drifting and eerily deserted. Investigate the colossal disappearance of the USS Cyclops in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle. Witness the final, harrowing hours of ...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering more than 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the 13th century AD.

Over 5 Million Copies Sold! Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. A powerful parable that will help you see your life and work in a new way. It's a rainy day in Seattle, and on the third floor of First Guarantee...

The shells were arranged in a golden spiral. Naia ran the numbers. The numbers said impossible. Marine biologist Naia Ohta moved to a tiny Hawaiian island to study octopuses and outrun a failed marriage. What she found at the bottom of an ocean trench was older than the island, larger than anything in her taxonomy, and leaving her gifts on the dock—split geodes, arranged shells, beauty placed with the precision of something that wanted her to know it was watching. He has no name she can pronounce. He has tentacles that move stones the size of trees and a garden in the abyss that no human ...

The ocean is indifferent to human survival. When a ship disappears beneath the surface, the real struggle is only beginning. Because what follows is not just a test of the body… It is a test of the mind. What happens after the sinking determines who lives — and who is lost to the horizon. In The Ocean Doesn’t Forgive, Commander Puzzles delivers a gripping exploration of shipwreck survival that goes far beyond disaster narratives. Blending maritime psychology, documented survival patterns, and the extreme realities of open-water exposure, this powerful work reveals what the sea teaches...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 From the award-winning author of The Great Sea, a magnificent new global history of the oceans and of humankind's relationship with the sea For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too...

The normally secure peace of the village of Tregovenek is dramatically disturbed when Father Solomon Ogilvey, the elderly priest, disappears one April evening when doing his regular duty of locking up the church. The blood on the floor and other marks of violence in the building suggest that the priest has been involved in an altercation. But where is he? For almost twenty years he has made his home with his niece, Lisa, her husband Matt and their daughter Ella. In different ways, the disappearance of this highly introvert member of the family causes on opening up of hitherto hidden areas ...

Most people believe danger announces itself. A fin breaking the surface. Sudden violence. Something unmistakably close. The ocean rarely works that way. Distance collapses quietly. Long before we sense it… Long before we understand it… Something may already be moving within our unseen perimeter. Shark Proximity is not a book about fear. It is a book about awareness. Blending behavioral science, ocean psychology, predator geometry, and real-world environmental insight, this immersive nonfiction work reveals the subtle mechanics that shape close encounters in open water — often without ...

When the Captain of a World War II submarine is fished out of the Bermuda triangle in the year 2025 halting the testing of the planet's most destructive weaponry to date, Cosmic Energy, the President of the Federated States of America is called in. To complicate the situation the Sub Captain, Captain Corbin, was reported as missing in action during World War II along with his sub and crew. Further investigations show that Corbin was found to have transformed his DNA into that of an amphibian! When Corbin is ordered to explain, he begins telling his story, a story of love, adventure, and ...

Fourteen days ago, the ocean swallowed the world. Now, the real nightmare begins. Seventeen-year-old Alex Mercer survived the cataclysm that scoured the coastline clean, emerging from the ruins with a single brutal purpose: keep eight-year-old Lily alive. Trapped in a squalid inland refugee camp where time is measured in ration lines and disease, their forged family is pushed to the brink of starvation. But starvation is not the deadliest thing hunting them. Ben, a former fisherman haunted by a past he thought the water had erased, knows the terrifying truth. The catastrophic tremor didn't ...

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this...

The Second Night at Sea: Why Most Survivors Never Make It Home A Documentary Survival Narrative from Commander Puzzles The ship is gone. The horizon is endless. And the real danger is only beginning. When a commercial freighter slips beneath the surface without warning, a small group of survivors finds themselves alone on the open ocean — suspended between hope and the vast, indifferent sea. At first, relief carries them. They escaped. They are alive. But seasoned rescue professionals understand a chilling truth: Most survivors are not lost in the moment of disaster… they are lost in ...

Brought to you by Penguin. How The Solar System Shaped Human History – And May Help Save Our Planet Our solar system is an extraordinary place where asteroids careen off course and solar winds hurl charged particles across billions of miles of space. Yet we seldom consider how these events, so...

Brought to you by Penguin. What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her...

In book #1, A Man Eater Is Born, you met Aunty Momi, who adopts several shapeshifters, which include a dolphin, a frigate bird, an owl, and a baby shark. Aunty Momi and her two sons, Martin and Paul, are shapeshifting eels. When Aunty Momi takes the baby shark to the ocean for the first time, Leila, the shapeshifting dolphin, searches for her mother, Misty. What Leila finds changes her life forever.