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Life Along the Shore John Richard Stephens
Fern
Canyon Press, 2025, ebook. People often say we don’t
know much about what’s going on in the ocean, but
that’s not true anymore. While there’s still much
that needs to be explored, researchers have made
many very important discoveries which are not
receiving the attention they deserve.
Would you like to find out what is really going on under the sea—how the strange creatures down there live, behave, and interact with each other? This book reveals that and more. The author strove to select information that the casual reader would find interesting, while trying to answer your questions before they arise, imparting useful knowledge, and sharing the beauty and wonder of the coast, starting close to home and moving out into the wild. One of two companion books, this examines life along the coast, in bays, lagoons, estuaries, salt marshes, swamps, mud flats, underwater grass meadows, kelp forests, reefs, tide pools, and beaches. It also features:
The other book, Life Under the Sea, focuses on life in the ocean, across the surface, in the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone, the abyss, the trenches, on submarine mountains, and on chimneys. It also features storms, ghost ships, dolphin and whale societies, shark behavior and hunting strategies, advanced weaponry, widely varied defense tactics, teamwork and cross-species partnerships, creatures that glow in the dark, transformers, and animals that may very well be immortal. There are also bobbit worms, pigbutt worms, sea pigs, and the headless chicken monster. Both books are equally fascinating. You can start with either one. Compiling all the peculiar and unusual discoveries the author could find, he worked full-time for two-and-a-half years searching through more than 200 books and 2,000 articles and scientific papers to gather this material together. These books are full of strange facts that are buried in the science literature and not easily accessible to the public. This is the only book where you’ll ever see all of this information in one place, providing insight into what these animals lives are like, written in an easily accessible, casual, and entertaining style, with occasional touches of humor. While there are many books that present the individual animals and facts about them, and many others are about the researchers who study them and what they learned, this book is not like that. Instead it brings the most interesting and entertaining information together, focusing on the sea creatures’ behavior and interactions with their neighbors, predators, and their environments. This heavily illustrated book also highlights the beauty of the coasts, the beaches, and the sea. Sea animals are very different from us and anything we’re familiar with, yet in many ways they are surprisingly similar to us. In this engaging book you’ll discover that there are a lot of unusual and amazing things going on in the sea and along the coast. You’ll learn about the widely varying tides and why waves tend to arrive in sets of three, along with which of these to beware of when surfing or playing among the breakers, and what signs to look for in the sand indicating which animals are living unseen beneath your feet, all while enjoying the beauty and magic along the shore. |
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Shipwrecks
and the dangers of the sea