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Sometimes the only way to deal with a phobia is to consume all the media you can find about it, thereby reaffirming that you are right to be afraid of it.
Here is a collection of titles, both fiction and non-fiction,
confirming my long-held belief of "Ocean scary!"
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep... |
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Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
Julia Armfield - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fathomlessly inventive and original, Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea is a portrait of marriage as we've never seen it before. "A wonderful novel, deeply romantic and fabulously strange. I loved this book." - Sarah Waters"Without a doubt, one of the best... |
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Into the Drowning Deep
MIRA GRANT - Orbit
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary"... |
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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Susan Casey - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular,... |
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The Deep
Alma Katsu - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic.Someone, or something, is haunting the ship.... |
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Diving into Darkness: A True Story of Death and Survival
Phillip Finch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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On New Year's Day, 2005, David Shaw traveled halfway around the world on a journey that took him to a steep crater in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, a site known as Bushman's Hole. His destination was nearly 900 feet below the surface.
On January 8th he descended... |
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Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox - Mariner Books; First Printing edition
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Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches. Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming... |
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Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In
Erich Hoyt - Firefly Books; Second Edition, Updated and Expanded edition
Format: Hardcover
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Praise for the first edition More than a picture book ... Hoyts elegant writing provides both the historical background for deep-sea exploration and an ecological perspective on life in the oceans depths. -- American Scientist A magnificent bestiary ... and a reminder of how little... |
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The last dive a father and son's fatal descent into the ocean's depths
Bernie Chowdhury - Perennial
Format: eBook
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In 1992 father-son diving duo -- Chris and Chrissy Rouse -- died tragically in an expedition to the recently discovered Second World War U-boat, the U-Who. In this book the author recreates this terrible event in an effort to understand it and shed light on man's obsession with the unknown... |
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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Christopher Moore - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Today Show Book Club #25. In his wacky new whale tale, Moore "writes in laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction. " --Janet Maslin, "New York Times. "
Just why do humpback whales sing That's the question that has marine... |
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From Below
Darcy Coates - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback
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Darcy Coates brings you a brand-new horror novel that'll take your breath away... From Below is:Perfect for fans of Jennifer McMahon and Wendy WebbFor lovers of ghost stories and anyone mesmerized by the depths of the ocean -- and what hides in the darknessNo light. No air. No escape.Hundreds... |
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To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe... |
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Mayflower and the forthcoming Valiant Ambition, the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure,... |
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The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
Laura Trethewey - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth - the world's seafloor - and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils... |
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
SABRINA IMBLER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A miraculous, transcendental book. Sabrina Imbler is a generational talent, and this book is a gift to us all." -- ED YONG, New York Times Bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist... |
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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
BRETT ARCHIBALD - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." -- The Wall Street JournalIn April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a surf-charter boat, making a night-time crossing of the remote Mentawai Strait off Sumatra, Indonesia. In the middle of a storm,... |
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The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
Linda Greenlaw - Hyperion; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.... |
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea [Library Binding]
Format: Library Binding
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Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how... |
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