Publisher:
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1935). First Edition.:
Large octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 360 pp. Illustrated with plates, in full-colour and black & white. Very Good+, with light edgewear, in a Good+ dust jacket with chipping along edges and to spine. From jacket: To most of ust the ocean means salt water, waves, seaweed and an uncertain percentage of fish. Yet actually the ocean is full of mystereis, involving a field of science which is staggering in its immensity and implications. It is a gigantic problem to compress between two covers even a brief summary of the science of the ocean...Yet this book gives us a rea...
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