Pacific: An Undersea Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821219030 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Doubilet describes the Great Barrier Reef as an oceanic wilderness. . From Publishers Weekly On assignments for National Geographic , Doubilet ( Light in the Sea ) has journeyed across, around and above the Pacific Ocean. He takes his readers on dives in the Palau chain, caves in New Zealand, vast coral fields in New Guinea. Here, he takes us on an underwater tour from the North Pacific near Vancouver to the ocean's southern limits in New Zealand, from Japan to the Great Barrier Reef and islands in between. Readers who enjoy diving, travel and adventure will treasure this book. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. The tex
Included in the book are information essays about each region, filled with anecdotes and adventures that give voice to the otherworld beauty of the Pacific.. Continuing southwards, the book looks at Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Lord Howe Island. Beneath its surface lie a series of underwater kingdoms, populated by creatures as different and diverse as those on land. This book is an undersea expedition through this magnificant realm, beginning off the California coast and travelling up to British Columbia before turning outward to the Hawaiian islands, the Galapagos and Palau. The journey ends in the temperate waters of New Zealand. From space, the Pacific dominates our planet - it is an ocean so vast that it makes islands out of continents. The book explores the sheer submarine cliffs of Japan's Suruga Bay at Izu Penninsula and then captures the eerie remnants of World War II battles that took place in the waters of the southwest Pacific, the most diverse coral paradise in the world