Oceans - Discovering Earth - Michael Allaby - Books - Facts On File Inc - 9780816060993 - July 30, 2009
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Oceans - Discovering Earth

Michael Allaby

Oceans - Discovering Earth

Details some of the greatest surveyors and mapmakers, including Captain James Cook and Robert FitzRoy, as well as some of the explorations that made a huge impact on ocean research. This book also examines ocean basins. It contains chapters that include: Mapping the Oceans, The Origin of the Oceans, and Studying the Ocean Floor.


208 pages, full-colour photographs & line illustrations, index, glossary, further resources, web sou

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 30, 2009
ISBN13 9780816060993
Publishers Facts On File Inc
Pages 208
Dimensions 188 × 236 × 20 mm   ·   817 g
Illustrator Garratt, Richard

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