The sea around us
by Rachel Caron;; drawings by Katherine L. Howe.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1951.
Contents:
The gray beginnings —
The pattern of the surface —
The changing year —
The sunless sea —
Hidden lands —
The long snowfall —
The birth of an island —
The shape of ancient seas —
Wind and water —
Wind, sun, and the spinning of the earth —
The moving tides —
The global thermostat —
Wealth from the salt seas —
The encircling sea.
