Take a close look at a wave-battered coast and you will discover a rich, fascinating, and remarkably brutal environment. Here, animals and plants exposed to wind, sun, and rain at low tide must cope with crashing waves as the seas rise to submerge them each day at high tide. How do living things survive in this harsh zone? With 87 stunning color photographs and an engaging text written for those with little or no knowledge of marine biology or physics, this book tells the story of one stretch along the Pacific coast of ...
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Take a close look at a wave-battered coast and you will discover a rich, fascinating, and remarkably brutal environment. Here, animals and plants exposed to wind, sun, and rain at low tide must cope with crashing waves as the seas rise to submerge them each day at high tide. How do living things survive in this harsh zone? With 87 stunning color photographs and an engaging text written for those with little or no knowledge of marine biology or physics, this book tells the story of one stretch along the Pacific coast of North America--introducing the mussels, limpets, crabs, grasses, starfish, kelp, and other animals and plants that live there, and explaining how they function and flourish in an environment of waves, sand, and rocks. In pictures and words, Wave-Swept Shore explains complex phenomena, such as wave action, using simple, intuitive analogies. It explores how the forms of animals and plants affect their survival in this harsh environment, considers their distribution on the shore, and looks at their seasonal variations, focusing on what can be easily observed by visitors to the coast. Revealing the rich variety of habitats woven into what may at first look like a fairly uniform environment, the book, an effective and beautiful tool for learning about the edge of oceans everywhere, opens our eyes to the wonders of rocky shores and introduces a whole new way of looking at the natural world.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Rosenfeld, Anne Wertheim. Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 179 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by photographer Rosenfeld on the title page (signature and date only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has a wrinkle at the top edge of the front panel. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 179 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book is as new except for softening to the base of the spine. Koehl is a marine biologist, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and subject of the book 'Nature's Machines: The Story of Biomechanist Mimi Koehl'. Rosenfeld is the author of 'The Intertidal Wilderness: A Photographic Journey through Pacific Coast Tidepools'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Fine Like New jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed by photographer Annr Rosenfeld. on title page. No other marks in book. Appears unread. 87 color photographs. Mimi Koehl (author); Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld (photographer).
