Are you interested in the physical processes of the earth’s oceans? Currents, waves, and how the oceans got to be the way they are? Fear not, I have just the reading list for you. Dig in!
Oceanography
- Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas
- The Oceans
- Ocean
- Encyclopaedia of the Sea
- Atlas of Oceans
- Sea Change – Sylvia Earle
- The Wave – freak waves (popular science)
- The Power of the Sea
- Moby-Duck
- Flotsametrics
- Surf Science – oceanography for surfers
- Mapping the Deep
- The Gulf Stream
- The Cloudspotter’s Guide
- The Wavewatcher’s Companion
Ocean history
- Atlantic
- Archaeological Oceanography
- The Box – history of shipping containers
- The Penguin Book of the Ocean – an anthology of ocean-related fiction and non-fiction
- The Log from the Sea of Cortez – John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts explore the Gulf of California
- The Mortal Sea
- The Death and Life of Monterey Bay
- The Unnatural History of the Sea – one thousand years of overfishing
- The Story of Sushi
- The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet – the history of the development of oceanography as a science
- Bay Between the Mountains – a history of False Bay
- The False Bay Story
- Sentinel of the Seas – the story of one of America’s most isolated lighthouses
- The Outermost House – Henry Beston’s classic account of a year at Cape Cod
- Endurance – Shackleton’s incredible Antarctic voyage
- Shorelines, Strandlopers and Shell Middens – a stretch to classify it here, but related to the history of our coast!
- Sea monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
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