Ocean Art
£20.00A richly illustrated tour of ocean art, from ancient times to modern.
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Ocean
£28.00From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet Earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great, critical wilderness, and the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe. Through one hundred years, eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species – and through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science – ‘Ocean’ uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet. And it shows its remarkable resilience – it is the part of our world that can, and in some cases has, recovered the fastest, and in our lifetimes we could see a fully restored marine world, even richer and more spectacular than we could possibly hope, if we act now.
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What the wild sea can be
£10.99No matter where we live, ‘we are all ocean people’, Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to present to show how prehistoric ocean ecology holds lessons for the ocean of today. In elegant, evocative prose, she takes readers into the realms of animals that epitomize current increasingly challenging conditions, from emperor penguins to sharks and orcas. Yet despite these threats, many hopeful signs remain. Increasing numbers of no-fish zones around the world are restoring once-diminishing populations. Astonishing giant kelp and sea grass forests, rivaling those on land, are being regenerated and expanded, while efforts to reengineer coral reefs for a warmer world are growing.
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The deep sea
£10.99In ten brief and informative essays, marine biologist and TV science advisor Professor Jon Copley journeys to one of the most mysterious and fascinating environments on Earth, the deep sea. Discover what makes this unique habitat such a challenging environment, the creatures that call it home and how ocean explorers are able to utilise the latest technology to aid their research and travel miles below the ocean surface.
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Blue machine
£20.00In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean’s complex, interlinked system. Timely, elegant and passionately argued, ‘Blue Machine’ is one of the biggest stories ever told. The understanding it offers is crucial to our future. Czerski captures the magnitude and subtlety of this complex force, showing us the thrilling extent to which we are at the mercy of this great engine.
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The frontier below
£25.00A journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet.
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Home waters
£10.99A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain – and decided the course of its history – for thousands of years.
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The Blue Commons
£22.00Planet Earth is mostly blue; about 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by the oceans, which provide half of the oxygen we breathe and about three-quarters of all life on Earth. But who owns the sea? About 40% of the world’s population lives in coastal communities and depend on ocean resources. Yet over the 20th century governments and corporations around the world have pushed the fatally flawed maxim of ‘blue growth’, and as a result nearly all fish stocks are either fully or over-exploited. In the neoliberal era, it has been extensively enclosed and privatized, generating multiple inequalities. A system of rentier capitalism now dominates human activity in the sea, based on privatization, financial capital and a drive for profit over people and ecosystems. Substantial and detailed, ‘The Blue Commons’ peels back the veil of the boundless exploitation and corruption.
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Who’s Hiding in the Ocean?
£14.99AMAZING ILLUSTRATIONS: Explore Caroline Selme’s intricately drawn underwater world, bursting with minute detail!ADDICTIVE GAMEPLAY: A matching game for the whole family with super-detailed underwater scenes that reward returning again and again. HOURS OF COZY FUN: Take a deep dive and learn to recognize fish from around the world – all from the comfort of home!PERFECT GIFT: Illustration-led, highly finished, 57-card unique matching game, for maximum gifting appeal.COLLECT THE SERIES: From the illustrator of Laurence King’s Dinosaur Bingo, Jungle Bingo, I Saw It First! and Who’s Hiding in the Jungle?Pick a card, any card! Now pick another. Between any animal and ocean card there will only ever be one animal that features on both. Can you be the first to find it? Featuring Caroline Selmes’s delightful animal illustrations and undersea scenes, Who’s Hiding in the Ocean? will have the whole family vying for victory!
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Antigua De Fortune of the High Seas
£6.99Tiggy is a high-born girl on the Isle of Fortune, forced to wear dresses, attend balls and (worst of all) comb her wild curls. But then the Pirate King strikes, stealing every male child on the island. Tiggy knows it is time to claim her destiny, take to the high seas and rescue the boys of Fortune …
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Risingtidefallingstar
£16.99‘Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’ Robert Macfarlane
From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.