Ecosystems & Habitats - Coastal Regions & Shorelines
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Ocean Beach: Fog, Fauna, and Flora
$28.00 Add to cartA charmingly illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach and the coastal ecology of San Francisco.
Grab your beach blanket and your puffy jacket (this is San Francisco, after all) and get ready to see Ocea
- Author: Rubin, Eddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146943
- Language: English
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Saving the Chesapeake: The History of a Movement
$26.95 Add to cartThe Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and the site of some of the most significant moments in the nation’s history. This book provides for the first time a comprehensive story
- Author: Ramey, Andrew S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0813952662
- Language: English
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Between the Tides in California: Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unf
- Author: Kelly, Ryan P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752378
- Language: English
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Returning Light: Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
$18.99 Add to cartThe Acclaimed International Bestseller
“It is impossible to do justice to the beauty of Returning Light. The whole book is a poem.” — New York Times Book Review
By the lighthouse keeper on the remote,
- Author: Harris, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063268299
- Language: English
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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining
$25.95 Read moreIn a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to mee… [more below]
- Author: Pilkey, Orrin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1478018798
- Language: English
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Cape Cod: Once Around the Sun
$29.99 Read moreCape Cod: Once Around the Sun is a visual and informational feast for nature lovers. From winter’s dormant woodlands and barren beaches to the whales and waterbirds of high summer, this book explores … [more below]
- Author: Trull, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366033
- Language: English
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The New Beachcomber’s Guide to the Pacific Northwest: Second Revised Edition
$29.95 Read moreA new edition of the bestselling beachcomber’s companion, updated with additional species, new information and photographs of West Coast seashore life, sure to enhance any trip to the beach!
The Pacif
- Author: Sept, J. Duane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1990776736
- Language: English
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Unnatural Habitat: The Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles
$24.00 Add to cartA guide to the ecosystem famously known as Los Angeles, from a field biologist and longtime San Gabriel Valley resident.
“A worthy and illuminating entry in the tradition of works exploring urbanizatio
- Author: Stanford, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146390
- Language: English
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A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster
$26.95 Add to cartOysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that’s just the beginning. Andr? Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off poin
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Gallant, Andr? Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357839
- Language: English
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Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
$26.95 Add to cart“This book,” writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, “is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Sherr, Evelyn B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351407
- Language: English
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Atlantic Seashore Field Guide: Florida to Canada
$39.95 Add to cartA photographic guide to the common plants and animals that inhabit the intertidal zone–the area covered by water at high tide and exposed during low tide–on the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral, F… [more below]
- Author: Sept, J. Duane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0811714217
- Language: English
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
$28.95 Add to cartThe World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast–its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survi
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Seabrook, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345334
- Language: English
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The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast
$18.95 Read moreThe Edge is a dramatic snapshot of the California coast’s past, present, and probable future in a time of climate change and expanding human activity. Written by two marine experts who grew up on the … [more below]
- Author: Steinhardt, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353099
- Language: English
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The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod’s Atlantic Shore
$16.95 Add to cartWeaving together Robert Finch’s collected writings from over fifty years and a thousand miles of walking along Cape Cod’s Atlantic coast, The Outer Beach is a poignant, candid chronicle of an iconic A
- Author: Finch, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356019
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic Coast: Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks
$27.50 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated field guide to the Mid-Atlantic region, from the Jersey Shore to Cape Hatteras
The Outer Banks of North Carolina and the beaches of the Mid-Atlantic Coast are among the most- Author: Lynch, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0300246463
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Long Island Sound: Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife
$30.00 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions of people
Long Island Sound consists of a diverse c- Author: Lynch, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0300220359
- Language: English
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The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast
$25.00 Add to cartIn The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast, Kirk Lombard combines a startling depth of knowledge with wry humor and colorful storytelling to guide readers’ quests to hook fish, dig cl
- Author: Lombard, Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 159714357X
- Language: English
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
$19.99 Add to cartWhat if Atlantis wasn’t a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher ti… [more below]
- Author: Goodell, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0316260207
- Language: English
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The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas
$55.00 Add to cartA San Francisco Chronicle bestseller!
An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down California’s shoreline.
California’s coastline is world famous, an endless source of fascination and fantasy, bu
- Series: California Lands Trilogy #2
- Author: Kaufmann, Obi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145513
- Language: English
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The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
$18.99 Add to cartHailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494023
- Language: English
