The Sea Among Us

Author : Richard James Beamish,G. A McFarlane
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1550176838

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The Sea Among Us by Richard James Beamish,G. A McFarlane Pdf

The Strait of Georgia is a one of the world's great inland seas, a 6,900 sq km body of water lying between the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island. Rich in history, teeming with wildlife and marine traffic, it is essential to British Columbians for food, jobs, travel and recreation. The sheltered waters of the strait are home to Canada's largest seaport and over two-thirds of the province's population. The Sea Among Us is the first book to present a comprehensive study of the Strait of Georgia in all its aspects with chapters on geology, First Nations, history, oceanography, fish, birds, mammals,invertebrates and plants. Covering everything from tsunami modelling to First Nations history to barnacle reproduction, the book is a sweeping overview of the waterway. It describes how fjords formed, what the seafloor is made of, and why coastal BC is so prone to earthquakes; it advises on which jellyfish sting, how to tell the difference between Dall's and harbour porpoises, and where to find whales; and it addresses how climate change and human impacts could affect the strait, noting that though marine ecosystems are tough and adaptable, there are limits to this resiliency. As editor Dr. Richard Beamish says, "It is the function of this book to inform British Columbians about the Strait of Georgia. All authors hope that the readers will use the information to ask questions about how the Strait of Georgia is coping with change and how they can provide more of the information that is needed to maintain a healthy Strait of Georgia." Informative, descriptive, cautionary and entertaining, The Sea Among Us is illustrated with attractive colour photographs, figures and drawings. It fills a place on the shelf of essential BC reference books beside The Encyclopedia of British Columbia and Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest.

Author : Richard Beamish,Gordon McFarlane
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1550179519

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The Sea Among Us by Richard Beamish,Gordon McFarlane Pdf

Dr. Douglas Bertram, Dr. John Clague, Terry Glavin, Rick Harbo, Dr. Paul Harrison, Dr. Jacquelynne King, Dr. David Mackas, Gordon McFarlane, Richard Beamish, Stewart Muir, Dr. Richard E. Thomson and Dr. Andrew Trites, contributors.

Author : Laura Rivière
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781524875404

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Among Us by Laura Rivière Pdf

Ten astronauts. An imposter determined to kill them all. Welcome to the deadliest spaceship of all time. The intrigue of everyone’s favorite video game comes to life in this unofficial Among Us adventure. V is a young astronaut ready for any challenge that comes his way. His next assignment: locate and repair the Skeld, a well-known international spaceship that has been navigating on pilot mode for years. Ten astronauts from around the world are tasked with this crucial mission. They must check wiring systems, align telescopes, clean vents . . . and survive. To the crew’s horror, one of the astronauts is killed in the reactor room—another one is found dead in the cafeteria. There’s an imposter in their midst! Will they be able to identify the culprit before it’s too late?

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:153647387

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The sea around us by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orrin H. Pilkey,Rob Young
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597266437

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The Rising Sea by Orrin H. Pilkey,Rob Young Pdf

On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract fear: it’s happening now and it’s threatening their way of life. In The Rising Sea, Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young warn that many other coastal areas may be close behind. Prominent scientists predict that the oceans may rise by as much as seven feet in the next hundred years. That means coastal cities will be forced to construct dikes and seawalls or to move buildings, roads, pipelines, and railroads to avert inundation and destruction. The question is no longer whether climate change is causing the oceans to swell, but by how much and how quickly. Pilkey and Young deftly guide readers through the science, explaining the facts and debunking the claims of industry-sponsored “skeptics.” They also explore the consequences for fish, wildlife—and people. While rising seas are now inevitable, we are far from helpless. By making hard choices—including uprooting citizens, changing where and how we build, and developing a coordinated national response—we can save property, and ultimately lives. With unassailable research and practical insights, The Rising Sea is a critical first step in understanding the threat and keeping our heads above water.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429308

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The Sea by John Banville Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.

Author : Stacy Bierlein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1938604318

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Stranger Among Us by Stacy Bierlein Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Whitney Williams
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547361589

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A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons by Elizabeth Whitney Williams Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons" by Elizabeth Whitney Williams. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Tahereh Mafi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062866585

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A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi Pdf

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature! From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice. It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments—even the physical violence—she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. But then she meets Ocean James. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. It terrifies her—they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds—and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down.

Author : Cat Hellisen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429951012

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When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen Pdf

After seventeen-year-old Felicita's dearest friend Ilven kills herself to escape an arranged marriage, Felicita chooses freedom over privilege. She fakes her own death and leaves her sheltered life as one of Pelimburg's magical elite behind. Living in the slums, scrubbing dishes for a living, she falls for charismatic Dash while also becoming fascinated with vampire Jannik. Then something shocking washes up on the beach: Ilven's death has called out of the sea a dangerous wild magic. Felicita must decide whether her loyalties lie with the family she abandoned . . . or with those who would twist this dark power to destroy Pelimburg's caste system, and the whole city along with it.

Author : Kevin Patterson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307363763

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The Water in Between by Kevin Patterson Pdf

A broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the owner of a thirty-seven-foot ketch called Sea Mouse. Although he's never really been on the ocean before (aside from the odd ferry-ride), he feels compelled to sail to Tahiti and back, to burn away his failings in hard miles at sea.

Author : John Gibson Paton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547027355

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The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton Pdf

John Gibson Paton was a Scottish Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. During his mission, he brought to the natives of the New Hebrides education and Christianity. To support the locals economically, he developed small industries for them, such as hat making. In his engaging autobiography, John G. Paton relates his life spent as a missionary among the cannibal peoples of the South Sea Islands and the education and development he helped bring to those remote isles.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Maritime law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024399516

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Status Report on Law of the Sea Conference by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels Pdf

Author : Herman Melville,R. L. Stevenson,Daniel Defoe,Tobias Smollett,Walter Scott,Frederick Marryat,Edgar Allan Poe,James Fenimore Cooper,Thomas Mayne Reid,Victor Hugo,R. M. Ballantyne,Jules Verne,Jack London,L. Frank Baum,Randall Parrish,Charles Boardman Hawes,Joseph Conrad,Rudyard Kipling,Ralph Henry Barbour,Rafael Sabatini,Jeffery Farnol,Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 8909 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664156525

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THE GREAT SEA ADVENTURE - Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Maritime Stories by Herman Melville,R. L. Stevenson,Daniel Defoe,Tobias Smollett,Walter Scott,Frederick Marryat,Edgar Allan Poe,James Fenimore Cooper,Thomas Mayne Reid,Victor Hugo,R. M. Ballantyne,Jules Verne,Jack London,L. Frank Baum,Randall Parrish,Charles Boardman Hawes,Joseph Conrad,Rudyard Kipling,Ralph Henry Barbour,Rafael Sabatini,Jeffery Farnol,Henry De Vere Stacpoole Pdf

The goal of this collection of the greatest sea adventure novels is to awake your lust of voyage, your sense of adventure and the joy of discovery. Content: Captain Charles Johnson: The History of Pirates R. L. Stevenson: Treasure Island Jack London: The Sea Wolf The Mutiny of the Elsinore A Son of the Sun Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton Tobias Smollett: The Adventures of Roderick Random Walter Scott: The Pirate Frederick Marryat: Mr. Midshipman Easy Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific" Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket James Fenimore Cooper: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea The Red Rover Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale Miles Wallingford Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea Thomas Mayne Reid: The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Victor Hugo: Toilers of the Sea Herman Melville: Redburn White-Jacket Moby Dick Benito Cereno R. M. Ballantyne: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean Fighting the Whales Jules Verne: The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant 20 000 Leagues under the Sea Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen An Antarctic Mystery L. Frank Baum: Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea Randall Parrish: Wolves of the Sea Charles Boardman Hawes: The Dark Frigate The Mutineers Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Lord Jim Typhoon The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous Ralph Henry Barbour: The Adventure Club Afloat Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood The Sea-Hawk Jeffery Farnol: Black Bartlemy's Treasure Martin Conisby's Vengeance Henry De Vere Stacpoole: The Blue Lagoon The Garden of God