The Erotic Ocean

by Jack Rudloe

A vivid exploration of the teeming life of beaches and intertidal zones. A valuable guide to finding, collecting, and preserving marine creatures. "While his book is often enlivened with anecdote, it is packed with carefully systematized information that will serve the most casual gleaner of beaches, observer of tidepools, or the serious student of marine life from the sands to the shallows to the deeps. "The first ten chapters examine a series of habitats: rocky show, sandy shore, sea grass, salt marsh, mangrove swamp, oyster reef, mudflat, wharfpilings, coral reef, and open sea. There are chapters on collecting marine specimens and on the various phyla, or classes, of marine life. There are several pages of photographs, and numerous valuable drawings of specimens by Ingrid Niccoll. It is a treasury of readily observable marine biology."

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Science

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

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[Chrystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

How-to text on the collection and preservation of marine specimens.