THE REAL BOOK ABOUT THE SEA

by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 7, 1954

The Epsteins are as much at home at sea as they seem to be elsewhere. And if another book at this level -- other than Ferdinand C. Lane's All About the Sea (Random House-1953. See P.535) is needed, this might be definitive. Clearly organized, as are all their books, this opens with earth's evolution, and the theories advanced by scientists about the seas' beginnings. Underwater geology comes and then fact builds on fact,- the interesting way tides behave, the interrelationship of currents and oceans and climates, the array of ocean life from plankton to whales. Next how man makes use of all these things, for food, for transportation, for minerals, and so on. This and Lane could provide the connecting link to Rachel Carson.

Pub Date: Sept. 7, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Garden City

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION