Abstract
THIS book covers the range of physical, biological and geological oceanography, from the point of view of a biologist. It gives a number of comprehensive, but not technical, presentations of the basic phenomena of the ocean as a place of life for plants and animals. It is well written and well illustrated by a large number of good photographs, well chosen. Part 1 consists of five chapters on history and geography, one of which is on oceanography in America. There are short interesting accounts of the work of Maury, Wyville Thomson, Murray, Hensen, Chun, the Prince of Monaco, A. Agassiz and many others.
This Great and Wide Sea
By R. E. Coker. Pp. xvii + 325 + 91 plates. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1947.) 27s. 6d. net.
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This Great and Wide Sea. Nature 161, 38–39 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161038a0
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