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The Penguin Book of the Ocean

By James Bradley
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The Penguin Book of the Ocean by James Bradley explores the vast and mysterious world of the ocean through a collection of writings that encompass its beauty, complexity, and significance. The book delves into scientific discoveries, cultural histories, and the environmental challenges faced by our seas. It offers readers an insightful glimpse into how the ocean shapes our planet and its impact on human life.
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The world's finest writing about the world's wildest place. Ever since the first travellers reached the coast of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, the ocean has been one of the wellsprings of the human imagination. Its restless immensity has given us new horizons to cross, new possibilities to explore, and inspired wonder, heartache and heroism.

In The Penguin Book of the Ocean, bestselling author James Bradley presents a dazzling selection of writing exploring this grandest of obsessions, combining fact and fiction, classical and contemporary, to create a collection like no other.

From Rachel Carson's luminous account of our planet's birth to the story of the wreck that inspired Moby-Dick, from Ernest Shackleton's harrowing account of his escape from Antarctica by open boat to Tim Winton's award-winning dissection of the dark side of surfing, The Penguin Book of the Ocean is a hymn to the mystery, beauty and majesty of the ocean, and to the poets and explorers it has inspired.

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ISBN: 9781926428161

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 October 2010

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hamish Hamilton

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 665g

Pages: 496

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