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A fascination for fish : adventures of an underwater pioneer /
This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as a pi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley : [Monterey] :
University of California Press ; Monterey Bay Aquarium,
©2001.
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| Colección: | University of California Press/Monterey Bay Aquarium series in marine conservation ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Underwater Thoughts; 2 Marineland of the Pacific; 3 A First Look at Realism; 4 The Road to Gonzaga Bay; 5 The Steinhart Aquarium; 6 San Francisco and the Sea of Cortez; 7 Sea World and South; 8 Carnival in Mazatlán; 9 The Lure of Sharks; 10 Tanner Bank and Mexico Expo; 11 The Revillagigedo Islands; 12 Roundabout to Steinhart Aquarium; 13 Search for a Living Fossil; 14 To Chile, Easter Island, and Rarotonga; 15 Monterey Bay Aquarium; 16 Creating the Exhibits; 17 Aquarists at Work; 18 Collecting the Fish; 19 Always Something New
- 20 The Open Ocean21 Pelagic Fishes; 22 A Million-Gallon Fishbowl; 23 A New Direction; Selected Reading; Index