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28 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Includes bibliographical references and index. Vivid full color photos. Covers tsunamis, earthquakes, sea disasters, sinking of the Indianapolis, ice, wind, waterspouts, floods, treasure fleets, El Nino and more.
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Long before popular science, there were myths and tales of wonder. Long before there were museums, there were cabinets of curiosities. A new, unashamedly populist generation of TV documentaries isn't afraid to appeal to our fascination with thrilling tales and creepy anecdotes as it outlines what we know of the workings of our world. Some of these programs are sensationalist and lazy. Others do science the greatest of favors by conveying just how little we really understand of our planet and how much more magical it seems as we get to know it.
The trilogy of PBS documentaries that began with Savage Earth and Savage Skies concludes with Savage Seas. The book has the same philosophy as the series--to add a human dimension to natural phenomena, like floods and fogs and tides, by comparing the way we have understood and handled them in the past with the ways we contend with them today. We see how spectacular and dangerous phenomena--giant squids, tsunamis, the sinking of the Titanic--relate to the big picture of climate, currents, and sea habitats. There is much still undiscovered. Rarely visited and effectively uninhabited, the two-thirds of our planet covered by seas contains many mysteries. This book barely scratches the surface, but it scratches in all the right places. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk
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- PublisherBOXTREE LTD
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0752213490
- ISBN 13 9780752213491
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Since ancient times the sea has been man's playground, and his pathway to new lands and new continents - but also his savage enemy. Linked to an ITV series of the same name, this exploration of the violence of the ocean combines science and human stories, dealing with topics which range from ice-caps to the tidal bores of China, and with man's dramatic relationship with the sea. Waves and tides, tidal waves, freak tides, rip-tides and whirlpools - what are they and why do they occur? How do humans interact with these phenomena? What is the lure of the sea? These are among the questions addressed, as well as mysteries of the deep: submarines, deep-sea exploration, ocean resources, deep-water life, diving, volcanic hazards, the Bermuda triangle, cyclones and hurricanes, icebergs and ice-breakers. Since ancient times the sea has been man's playground, and his pathway to new lands and new continents - but also his savage enemy. Linked to an ITV series of the same name, this exploration of the violence of the ocean combines science and human stories. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780752213491
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