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The Blue Planet - Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes


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The Blue Planet - Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes

 
Description: ISBN 0563384980 / Genre: Science / Nature / Focusing on seven different habitats, The Blue Planet is a comprehensive guide to the world's ... more
The Blue Planet - Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes ... oceans. It explores the hidden depths of the oceans to reveal many fascinating facts, which can be found in boxed text and feature spreads along with lots of full colour illustrations.

Newest Review: ... The Water Planet This introductory chapter discusses the importance of water to our planet and its special properties (it ... more

 ... gets lighter as it freezes so ice floats, without this, the polar oceans would freeze solid), how the earth's tectonic plates affect the oceans, and what the ocean floor looks like (there's as much variety on the ocean floor as on the surface, with abyssal plains, subsurface volcanoes, continental shelves and mid ocean ridges). The importance of tides to life in the ocean is also explained. Human influence on ocean life is touched on here, and the sad story of the blue whale recounted. The blue whale is the largest anim...more

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Crowned Review The Blue Planet - Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes: A brilliant guide to the world's oceans (1260 words)
by - written on 05/04/09 (Very useful, 161 readings)
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"The Blue Planet" was a lavish, ground breaking television series shown on BBC in 2001. The series was narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and produced by Andrew Byatt, Alistair Fothergill, and Martha Holmes. The book is a companion to the TV series. The title "The Blue Planet" refers, of course, to how Earth looks from space due to being 70% covered by ocean. The world's oceans are so poorly explored that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the ocean bottom. There are certainly thousands of species of fish and animals still to be discovered. The book is written by the three producers of the TV series, so ...  Read the complete review

 

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