Exploring the Deep Frontier

The Adventure of Man in the Sea

by Al Giddings ; Sylvia Earle

ISBN: 0870443437
ISBN-13: 9780870443435
Format: Hardcover

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Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1980

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