Southern African Sea Life - A Guide for Young Explorers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern African Sea Life - A Guide for Young Explorers write by Sophie von der Heyden. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Southern African Sea Life - A Guide for Young Explorers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This exciting guide for young explorers combines scientific facts, fascinating titbits, brilliant full-colour photography and sensitive illustrations to bring a wonderful variety of ocean creatures vibrantly to life. Children will enjoy poring over the colourful pages as they read about marine habitats such as sandy beaches, rocky shores, estuaries, coral reefs and kelp forests. Discover plant and animal groups, including molluscs, crustaceans, coastal birds, mammals and reptiles, among others. Learn to identify important species from each group, using picture field guides. Study the helpful holiday guides to find out what sea life to look out for along the shore - all the way from Walvis Bay to Mozambique. Find out why the ocean is vital to us, how it may be harmed by human activities and some of the ways in which we can help. Learn about the valuable work that marine scientists do. This introduction to the habitats, plants and creatures of the southern African seashores is a captivating celebration of ocean life and is sure to become a firm favourite with beachcombers of all ages.
Exploring the Seashore in Southern Africa
Exploring the Seashore in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Seashore in Southern Africa write by Margo Branch. This book was released on 2018-10-01. Exploring the Seashore in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With this lively guide, young adventurers will discover the many treasures along southern Africa’s shores, learn all about the strange and beautiful creatures they can expect to see at the beach and where to find them, then try the fascinating activities and make their own first-hand discoveries. A companion volume to the popular Exploring Fynbos, this lively book is loaded with interesting topics in accessible text; interactive activities; ‘did you know’ boxes; ‘things to do’ panels. Sales points: an absorbing, interactive and fact-filled introduction to southern Africa’s shore life; a companion volume to Exploring Fynbos, both providing good-value fun and entertainment for young readers, while they learn; colourful illustrations and photographs; activities to inspire insight into our coastal environment.
Living Shores
Living Shores - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Shores write by George Branch. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Living Shores available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1981, Living Shores was for many years the standard reference for marine science students but was also embraced by a popular market for its fascinating insights into marine and coastal habitats and the life they support. After a long absence, this classic has been revived and thoroughly reworked to incorporate the many dramatic changes that our oceans and coasts have undergone over the past few decades. This book is the fi rst of a two volume set, and examines the di_ erent marine ecosystems and how humankind interacts with them. It discusses the evolution of the sea and continents and looks at the ecology of coastal systems, including intertidal zones, beaches, dunes, estuaries, islands, kelp forests and reefs. The book unpacks the relationship between humans and the marine environment, and the consequences of harvesting and mining to meet our needs. It also addresses the impact of climate change, and highlights what can be done to protect our environment. Richly supported by full-colour photography and numerous explanatory illustrations, diagrams and graphs, this book will prove invaluable to students and teachers but will also appeal to anyone with a fascination for nature and our marine world in particular.
Two Oceans
Two Oceans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Oceans write by George Branch. This book was released on 1994. Two Oceans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here for the first time is a comprehensive guide, with full-colour photographs on every opening, that will allow people to identify the full spectrum or rich animal and plant life found on South African shores.
Two Oceans
Two Oceans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Oceans write by George Branch. This book was released on 2017-03-10. Two Oceans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over two decades Two Oceans has been the pre-eminent book to which scientists, students, divers and beachcombers turn to identify and learn about marine life, from sponges to whales and seaweeds to dune forests. In this exuberantly colourful, fully revised fourth edition, over 2 000 species are now covered, names and other details have been updated to refl ect the latest taxonomy and many new photographs have been added.
