Ocean Publications

The library of the ocean is as vast and complex as the sea itself. What follows are several recommendations by our Editors of essential titles in English. The list will continue to grow and will be expanded in the future with reviews and excerpts.

Classics

The Sea Around Us by Rachael Carson (Oxford University Press, New York 1950)

The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (Harper & Row, New York 1953)

The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad (The Marlboro Press, Marlboro, VT 1988)

Recent Publications

Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina (Henry Holt & Co, New York 1990)
Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage by Deborah Cramer (W.W. Norton, New York 2001)

Ocean Planet, Writings and Images of the Sea, by Peter Benchley, edited by Judith Gradwohl (Abrams Co., New York 1995)

The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian (University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007). (http://www.thedeepbook.org)

Climate and Global Warming

Reading the Skies: A Short History of English Weather by Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester University Press, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2000)

The Long Summer by Brian Fagan (Basic Books, 2004)

Collapse by Jared Diamond (Penguin Group, 2005)

Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert, (Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2006)

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)

Policy & Planning

The Ocean: Our Future by Independent Commission on the Ocean, edited by Mario Soares (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 1998)

Defying Ocean's End: An Agenda for Action, edited Linda K. Glover and Sylvia A. Earle (Island Press, Washington, DC 2004)

Oceans 2020: Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability, edited by John G. Field, Gotthilf Hempel, and Colin P. Summerhayes (Island Press, Washington, DC 2002)

Biomedical Research

From Monsoons to Microbes: Understanding the Ocean's Role in Human Health (National Research Council, Washington, DC. 1999)

History of Marine Science

The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography by Susan Schlee
(E.P. Dutton, New York, 1973)

Exploring the Ocean World: A History of Oceanography edited by C.P. Idyll
(Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York 1972)

Introduction to the World's Oceans by Alyn Duxbury, Alison Duxbury and Keith Sverdrup (sixth edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston 2000)

Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science by Jacob Darwin Hamblin (University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2005)

Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Scripps, 1993 edited by Keith R. Benson and Philip F. Rehbock (University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002)

Oceanography: A View of the Earth by M. Grant Gross (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1977)

Scientists and the Sea, 1650-1900: A Study of Marine Science by Margaret Deacon, (London and New York: Academic Press, 1971).

The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science under ICES [International Council for the Exploration of the Sea] by Helen Rozwadowski (University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002)

Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer by Kathleen Crane (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado 2003)

Fresh Water

The Water Atlas: A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource by Robin Clarke and Janet King (The New Press, New York 2004)

From Source Water to Drinking Water, edited by Lawrence Reiter, Henry Falk, Charles Groat and Christine M. Coussens (The National Academy Press, Washington, DC 2004)

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (New Press, New York 2002)

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva (South End Press, Cambridge, MA. 2002)

Water: the Fate of our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers (Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2001)

Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle over Water in a World about to Run Out by Jeffrey Rothfeder (Penguin Putnam, New York 2001)

Photography

Ocean by Philip Plisson, text by Cristian Buchet, captions by Anne Jankeliowitch (Thames & Hudson, London 2006) (English version of La Mer)

Pecheurs d'images by Philip Plisson and Guillaume Plisson (Editions du Chêne, Paris 2000)

Oceans by Sue Hostetler (Rizzoli International Publications, 2002)

Water by Hans Silvester, Bernard Fischesser, Marie-France Depuis-Tate (Thames & Hudson, London 2001)

Spirit of the Sea by Marie- France Boyer (Thames & Hudson, London 2003)

General Reference

Ocean by Robert Dinwiddie and Louise Thomas, foreward by Fabien Cousteau (DK Adult, 2006)

The Encyclopedia Of The Earth: Oceans and Islands by Dr. Frank H. Talbot and Robert E. Stevenson, Consultant Editors (Weldon Owen, Inc, San Francisco, CA 1991)

The Oceans Atlas - A Pictoral Atlas of the World's Oceans by Anita Ganeri (Dorling Kindersley, New York 1994)

Exploring the Ocean by Trevor Day (Oxford University Press, New York 2003)