Post by SeaRat on Apr 3, 2020 14:06:15 GMT -8
I was lucky to get to the Hillsboro Public Library before it closed due to Covid-19. I always look for diving book, and came away with some great ones. Here they are, with their prices. I'll post photos below, but first just the titles and a description, with the price (these were "surplus" and the library was getting rid of them).
Touch The Sea, by Dee Scarr, $2.00. Wow, and this book was a signed-by-the-author copy! Dee left teaching to become a full-time scuba instructor and dive guid in the Caribbean. She shows how she uses touch, actully touching, sealife as a way of getting to know them. It is a wonderful book, full of photos, of the different "critters" she has touched, and shown others how to touch.
Coral Reefs, Nature's Richest Realm, by Reger Steene, $6.00. WOW! What a find, a hard-backed book on coral reefs, preserving in photos how reefs used to be before coral blanching. This is mostly a picture book, documenting coral reefs and published in 1990. It also says, "Dedicated to Jim Tobin of Portland, Oregon"; I'm going to have to do some research and find out who Jim was.
Whales, Dolphins - Porpoises of the Picific, Shorelines of America Series, by Peter C. Howorth, $2.00. This 1985 publication is soft-cover, but full-sized and describes the Pacific species of whales and dolphins. It has beautiful above- and below-water photography to go with the descriptions.
Whales, Delphins and Porpoises, An Illustrated Encyclopedic Survey by International Experts, Contributing Editors: Professor Sir Richard Harrison, MD FRS, and Dr. M.M. Bryden, DSc, FAIBiol., $3.50. This is anothe "WOW" book, with very interesting (to me) descriptions of how whales and dolphins swim, their evolution, anatomy, etc.
All in all, I have a lot of reading materials for this Covid-19 stay-at-home crisis.
John
Touch The Sea, by Dee Scarr, $2.00. Wow, and this book was a signed-by-the-author copy! Dee left teaching to become a full-time scuba instructor and dive guid in the Caribbean. She shows how she uses touch, actully touching, sealife as a way of getting to know them. It is a wonderful book, full of photos, of the different "critters" she has touched, and shown others how to touch.
Coral Reefs, Nature's Richest Realm, by Reger Steene, $6.00. WOW! What a find, a hard-backed book on coral reefs, preserving in photos how reefs used to be before coral blanching. This is mostly a picture book, documenting coral reefs and published in 1990. It also says, "Dedicated to Jim Tobin of Portland, Oregon"; I'm going to have to do some research and find out who Jim was.
Whales, Dolphins - Porpoises of the Picific, Shorelines of America Series, by Peter C. Howorth, $2.00. This 1985 publication is soft-cover, but full-sized and describes the Pacific species of whales and dolphins. It has beautiful above- and below-water photography to go with the descriptions.
Whales, Delphins and Porpoises, An Illustrated Encyclopedic Survey by International Experts, Contributing Editors: Professor Sir Richard Harrison, MD FRS, and Dr. M.M. Bryden, DSc, FAIBiol., $3.50. This is anothe "WOW" book, with very interesting (to me) descriptions of how whales and dolphins swim, their evolution, anatomy, etc.
All in all, I have a lot of reading materials for this Covid-19 stay-at-home crisis.
John
