 | The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.90 The greatest book about the sea ever written; wide-ranging, informative and lyrical. A must-read.
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 | Seven-tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
Buy new: £6.43 / Used from: £1.86 A wonderfully researched and beautifully written cultural history of the sea.
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 | Underwater to Get out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea by Trevor Norton
Buy used from: £0.01 Norton, a marine biologist, offers rich insights into the magic of the underwater world.
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 | 20,000 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Jules Verne's classic underwater fiction, describing the fantastic voyage of the submarine Nautilus.
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 | Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by HM Rozwadowski
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £8.63 A persuasive, and sometimes entertaining, account of the rise of oceanography during the mid-19th century
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 | Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.21 Melville's great work takes in a vast amount of historical information about the sea in general, as well as about Atlantic whaling in particular.
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 | Stars Beneath the Sea: The Incredible Story of the Pioneers of the Deep Sea by Trevor Norton
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £0.01 One of my favourite books: those magnificent men in their diving machines!
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 | The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Buy used from: £0.01 A haunting and salt-encrusted story of exploration into the frozen north.
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 | The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Buy used from: £0.68 Extraordinary, moving and unforgettable account of the second world war at sea.
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 | The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium by Bernd Brunner
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £18.91 A copiously illustrated account of 19th-century aquariums and aquarium-maniacs.
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 | The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 Where the sea meets the shore: a gripping tale of wreckers and looters along the unlit shores of Britain.
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 | Mapping the Deep: The extraordinary story of ocean science by Robert Kunzig
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.17 An award-winning account of the rise of ocean science, from the Challenger voyage of the 1870s, to sonar imaging today. An excellent introduction to the world beneath the waves.
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 | Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents (Armchair Traveler) by Erik Orsenna
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £6.34 A novelist's paean to the North Atlantic Drift, which helps to keep the shores of western Europe mild and habitable
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 | To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate by Dallas Murphy
Buy used from: £1.20 A firsthand account of life on an ocean research vessel, as well as a timely exploration of the influence of ocean currents on our changing climate
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