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23) Arctic Ocean
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Description
Presents information about the Arctic Ocean, describing its geography, weather, resources, islands, and the animals who live in its waters.
24) Life of Pi
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
25) Ship of fools
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (149 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
26) Extreme waves
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Joseph Henry Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xx, 291 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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As the "Titanic" and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the "SS Californian" sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the "Titanic" fired. The next morning, the "Titanic" was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned the...
28) Ocean
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Description
Explores the diversity of life in the sea, including predators and prey, the coral reef, and life in the twilight zone of the ocean, with information on products of the ocean, ocean explorers, and preservation of this natural resource.
29) Big Pacific
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the animals and natural wonders of the Pacific Ocean.
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Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something was brewing in the planet's waters. They found...
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Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What is it about the ocean that pulls at us? There are obvious reasons: weather, livelihood, the fact that it is such a dominating presence on our planet. There is also something deeper. Answer this question by sitting down with thirteen folks who have been lucky enough, passionate enough, dedicated enough, or some combination of all of these to look deeper into our bearing with the ocean as humans.
32) Titanic
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Description
Offers detailed descriptions of the Titanic, including its accommodations, and a retelling of its sinking in the North Atlantic in April, 1912.
34) Deep sea
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Famed oceanic filmaker Howard Hall (Into the Deep) guides this immersive adventure that lets you swim alongside some of the most exotic creatures of the planet"--Container.
35) Extreme ocean
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National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
112 pages cm
Description
"Information and photos of oceans for young children"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
The oceans have always shaped human lives," writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. "However, one way or another, the future ocean is the deep ocean." A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway. Revolutionary studies in the deep are rewriting the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is...
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
470 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Description
Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.
38) Oceans
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xix, 252 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Next set in A TRUE BOOK series. Young readers rediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, The Titanic. Featuring historical imagery, first-hand accounts, and lively text"--
40) The cat's table
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In the early 1950's, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
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