Gulf Stream Chronicles

Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including Sargassum mats concealing strange creatures and exotic sea beans, whales and sea turtles, sunfish and flying fish, and shearwaters and Bermuda petrels. During his long career as a research scientist, David S. Lee made more than 300 visits to this area off the North Carolina coast, documenting its extraordinary biodiversity. In this collection of twenty linked essays, Lee draws on his personal observations and knowledge of the North Atlantic marine environment to introduce us to the natural wonders of an offshore treasure. Lee guides readers on adventures miles offshore and leagues under the sea, blending personal anecdotes with richly detailed natural history, local culture, and seafaring lore. These journeys provide entertaining and informative connections between the land and the diverse organisms that live in the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina. Lee also reminds us that ocean environments are fragile and vulnerable to threats such as pollution, offshore energy development, and climate change, challenging those of us on land to consider carefully the costs of ignoring sea life that thrives just beyond our view.

"A historical collection of true, oft times embellished, forgotten sagas of tremendous hardship, daring exploits, hilarious anecdotes, devoted love, foolhardy capers, of the rugged, resilient people of Ha Ha Bay and area, eking out a subsistence living on the stormy, unforgiving North Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, told with a human face. Canada’s first European settlement, most destructive hurricane, most devastating tsunami, most deadly disease epidemic, even genocide; all occurred in Newfoundland."

An illustrated introduction to one of the Earth's great natural wonders explores the science and history of the sea highway known as the Gulf Stream and reveals how the Gulf Stream affects, and is affected by, every living thing that encounters it.

This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.

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Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book! People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you’ll discover the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast, the dancing alligators of the Everglades, the synchronized blinking of fireflies near Tennessee, the swarms of feeding bats over the Mississippi River, the blue-glowing scorpions of the Southwest desert, hundreds of wintering tundra swans in New Jersey, and much more.