Henry Carter Hull

This book takes readers on a journey under the sea to discover the fascinating facts about tiger sharks, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and more. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text, while additional search tools--including a glossary and an index--help students locate and review important information.

A Pandora's box of environmental disasters has been opened, threatening the ability of the natural world to recover and humanity to survive. From devastating fires and storms to the emergence of deadly new viruses, it's hard to deny the terrifying reality of climate change. Water is the life support system for the entire planet. Captain Paul Watson, founder of the direct-action group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has spent decades protecting...

In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whaling-in fact, their entire livelihood-would be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound....

The Arctic Ocean is a hard place to live. Frigidly cold, the ocean freezes during the long, dark winters. In summer, you can still find ice there. Readers will discover the plants and animals that live in, on, and near this special place, and the scientists who explore its mysteries.

The history of American whaling is most frequently associated with Nantucket, New Bedford and Mystic. However, the state of Maine also played an integral part in the development and success of this important industry. The sons of Maine became whaling captains, whaling crews, inventors, investors and businessmen. Towns along the coast created community-wide whaling and sealing ventures, outfitted their own ships and crewed them with their own people....

The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex is the harrowing narrative of an unfortunate vessel's calamitous encounter with a great white whale, and the crew's perilous fight for survival on the open sea. This Explorer's Club edition faithfully reproduces Owen Chase's original 1821 narrative, in which he chronicles the great whale's attack on the ship, the Essex's subsequent sinking, and the more than exhausting months at sea that followed, in which the...

Modern technologies have wreaked havoc on the ocean's biodiversity, which affects not just sea life but all life on the planet. Environmentalist Albert Bates teaches students about currents and tides, the ocean's food pyramid, what is meant by "blue acceleration," and what causes an imbalanced ecosystem. The two biggest changes to the ocean's health-overfishing and pollution, are explored in-depth. The effects of climate change which include melting...

Let's learn about crustaceans in this engaging science book! Your child will love to have this book because it capitalizes on the universality of images. This allows for easy understanding of concepts. There are few sentences required to read so a child gets to enjoy "analyzing" pictures instead.