Surveys the origin, geological borders, climate, water, plant and animal life, and economic and ecological aspects of the Atlantic Ocean.

On a special field trip aboard the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns about the ocean and the different creatures that live there.

Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished,...

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop...

Explore what the Atlantic Ocean is, how far it stretches, how the moon affects it, and other characteristics as described by the ocean itself.

In his riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller, Nathaniel Philbrick returns an epic tale- the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick-- to its rightful place in America history. In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the...

" ... officially documents in unforgettable words and pictures the inspirational stories of people surviving against impossible odds, heroic acts crossing all boundaries of gender, age and nationality, and a planet ignoring its artificial boundaries