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A delightful
A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically
illustrated, authoritative, and
thought-provoking.
For millennia, we have taken to the waves.
And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our
planet’s most inaccessible region, the
place about which we know the least. From
A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and
through both text and original
illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a
celebration of our ongoing quest to know
the sea and its creatures.
Focusing on individual species or groups
of animals, Richard J. King embarks upon a
global tour of ocean wildlife, including
beluga whales, flying fish, green turtles,
mako sharks, noddies, right whales, sea
cows (as well as sea lions, sea otters,
and sea pickles), skipjack tuna,
swordfish, tropicbirds, walrus, and
yellow-bellied sea snakes. But more than
this, King connects the natural history of
ocean animals to the experiences of people
out at sea and along the world’s
coastlines. From firsthand accounts passed
down by the earliest Polynesian navigators
to observations from Wampanoag clamshell
artists, African-American whalemen, Korean
female divers (or haenyeo), and today’s
pilots of deep-sea submersibles—and even
to imaginary sea expeditions launched
through poems, novels, and paintings—Ocean
Bestiary weaves together a diverse array
of human voices underrepresented in
environmental history to tell the larger
story of our relationship with the sea.
Sometimes funny, sometimes alarming, but
always compelling, King’s vignettes reveal
both how our perceptions of the sea have
changed for the better and how far we
still have to go on our voyage.
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Introduction
World Map
Abalone
Architeuthis dux
Beluga
Chinstrap Penguin
Dolphinfish
Electric Ray
Flying Fish
Frigatebird
Grampus
Green Turtle
Guanay Cormorant
Halibut
Horse
Isurus oxyrinchus
Juan Fernández Crawfish
Killer Whale
Louisiana Shrimp
Mother Carey’s Chicken
New Zealand Sea Lion
Noddy
Octopus
Otter
Paper Nautilus
Parrot
Pilot Fish
Quahog
Right Whale
Sea Cow
Sea Pickle
Silver King
Teredo Shipworm
Tropicbird
Tuna
Urchin
Velella and the Man-of-War
Walrus
Wandering Albatross
Whale Shark
Xiphias gladius
Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake
Zooplankton
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
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