Oceans

by Michael Allaby, Richard Garratt (Illustrator)

Details some of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers, including Captain James Cook and Robert FitzRoy, as well as some of the explorations that made a huge impact on ocean research. This book also examines ocean basins. It contains chapters that Mapping the Oceans, The Origin of the Oceans, and Studying the Ocean Floor.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

John Michael Allaby was a British author and actor. He was the Aventis Junior prize-winner.