FRONTIERS OF THE SEA - The Story of Oceanographic Exploration by Cowen, Robert C. (introduction by Roger R. Revelle) - 1963

New York: Bantam Pathfinder - Bantam Books, 1963. 312 pp. Bantam Pathfinder book HP29. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Mary S. Cowen. The Chapters are: Exploring the Hinterland: Birth of a Science; The Great Voyage; The Glorious Amateurs; Growth and Challenge; Beginnings: The Atomic Clock; Birth of a Planet; Origin of the Seas and Their Basins; The Rise of Life; A Bit of Crystal Gazing; The Unseen Landscape: The Threshold; Descent to the Abyss; Canyons in the Deep; Forces of Mud and Silt; Mountains Beneath the Sea; The Dustfall; Probing the Deep Sea Floor: The Record of the Sediments; The Oxygen Thermometer; Beneath the Sediments; The Pacific's Ring of Fire; Sunken Islands; Living Reefs; The Coral Reef Controversy; Filling the Deep Ocean Basins; Patterns of the Waters: Theory versus Reality; The Pattern of the Breakers; Shifting Sands; The Force of Waves and Spray; Tidal Waves; The Pulse of the Earth; The Restless Waters: Pattern of the Currents; Desert in the Sea; The Gulf Stream: A Study in Complexity; El Nino; A Second Gulf Stream; The Power of Salt and Heat; Wrong Way Current; The Great Heat Engine: The Thermodynamic Flywheel; The Big Experiment; Frozen Paradox; Atlantic Thermostat; The Advancing Sea; Adjusting the Heat Engine; Waters of Life: The Wanderers; The Grass of the Sea; March of the Seasons; Scavengers of the Sea; The Grazers; Larval Forms; The Commuters; The Range of Ocean Life: The Rigors of the Shore; The Great Life Zone; The Living Soup; The Weirdest Fish in the Sea; Cold Light; The Deepest Life; The Promise of Plenty: Improving the Fisheries; The Problem of Preservation; The Vision of Plankton Fishing; Farming the Seas; Ocean Treasure House; Mining the Sea Floor; and The New Oceanography: The Underwater Ballon; Beyond the Bathyscaphe; The Mohole; Atomic Wastes into the Sea; and The Need for Ships.. First Paperback Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Mary S. Cowen;.