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Coming soon! Here’s a partial list of books on oceans, marine mammals, fish, seafood and polar exploration  that we will be profile later this week –with reviews and author interviews – as a follow up to our story on Oceans in Deep Trouble

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hampton Sides)

The Extreme Life of the Sea  (Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi)

Blue Future: Protecting Water for People & the Planet Forever (Maude Barlowe)

American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish)

Telling Our Way to the Sea: a Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez (Aaron Hirsh)

Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator (Richard Ellis)

The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the 20^th Century (D. Graham Burnett)

For Cod and Country: Simple, Delicious, Sustainable Cooking (Barton Seaver)

If You Want to See a Whale (for kids 4-8, Julie Fogliano)

Ridley turtle. Image by Kip Evans for Cocos Bay Mission Blue