Oceanography


The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed
Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science
Essentials of Oceanography
The Sea Around Us
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
Oceanography
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
The Brilliant Abyss
Playground
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Early Man and the Ocean by Thor HeyerdahlPreparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin FrankCook  by Nicholas ThomasExploring the Deep by Michael WelhamAdventures in Ocean Exploration  by Robert D. Ballard
Ocean Exploration
57 books — 11 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
366 books — 113 voters

The Life Of A Psychic Detective by Nancy Orlen WeberNocturne, Opus 1 by Norene MoskalskiMarine Pollution by Judith S. WeisTo the Survivors by Robert Uttaro
College Curriculum Books
4 books — 7 voters
Cod by Mark KurlanskyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussA River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Finding Out About Fish
111 books — 48 voters

The Sea Around Us by Rachel CarsonOctopus by Jennifer A. MatherVoyage of the Turtle by Carl SafinaDemon Fish by Juliet EilperinSea Change by Sylvia A. Earle
Ocean/Marine Conservation
76 books — 52 voters

Helen Scales
There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier.
Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

I was so busy making maps I let them argue. I figured I’d show them a picture of where the rift valley was and where it pulled apart. There’s truth in the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words and that seeing is believing.
Marie Tharp

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