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4) A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes of North America: from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja, California
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Guide with pictures to the fish of the Pacific coast.
Author
Publisher
Academy Chicago
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the true story of a couple's ramshackle trip down the coast, with all the exulting highs and terrifying lows of sailing a small boat on the Pacific, from nearly being rammed by a pair of whales on Thanksgiving morning and the terrifying experience of rounding Punta Gorda--hanging on to the mast for dear life and looking about at what seemed like the apocalypse--to having their tiller snap off while accidentally surfing coastal breakers and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.