The Emerald Sea: Exploring the Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

by SWANSON, Diane

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Book Description

Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1993. AS NEW book condition/FINE dust jacket. Black hard cover with silver lettering on spine. Corners & spine are crisp & square. Glossy dust jacket has extremely light shelf scuff & slight shelf curve to botttom edge. Profuse full color photographs. On the front of the dust jacket is a photograph of "The sea blubber, the largest jellyfish found in the Emeral Sea. It can reach sixty centimetres in diameter, and it's tenacles may stretch for nearly two and a half metres. Small pictures & short biographies of author & photographer on back flap. "From the dust jacket: "The vast undersea frontier, captured here on film, is rated by some as second only to the Red Sea in terms of visual interest and abundance of life. "The Emerald Sea" records this fascinating realm: forests of seaweed as tall as multistorey buildings; invertebrates, such as octopuses (which grow larger here than anywhere in the world), and sea stars, moving their spineless bodies across the sea floor; fish hovering inside ancient shipwrecks and peering out from giant barnacle shells; and marine mammals -- the warm-blooded creatures of this cold sea -- responding with curiosity to human intruders." 147 pp with index. Pages are pristine - clean, tight & unmarked. Appears UNREAD. Gift quality condition. Picture is provided by the seller & is of actual book you will receive. . Unstated - Presumed First. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Illus. by SANDERS, Dale (Photographer). Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

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