Marine Life of the North Atlantic : Canada to New England 2n Ed. [Paperback]

Andrew J. Martinez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1999

Vivid detail to more than 200 different marine plants and animals that can be found along the shore, or within easy visual reach by snokeling or diving. Indexes, bibliography, and facts abound. No Longer published by Down East Books

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Provides both the professional and amateur naturalist with a valuable new resource for learning more about plants and animals... -- Fred Bavendam, Underwater Photographer

About the Author

Andrew Martinez has been diving and photographing for twenty-five years. His work has appeared in many nature, travel, and dive magazines, in textbooks, and in many aquariums. Photo assignments for the National Geographic Society have taken him to the Fiji Islands and the Caribbean. He presently leads photo/dive trips to the Caribbean and teaches underwater photography at York, Maine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Aqua Quest Pubn; Rev Upd Su edition (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892724552
• ISBN-13: 978-0892724550
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful field guide to marine life of the region, May 3, 2000

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Alan R. Holyoak - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marine Life of the North Atlantic : Canada to New England 2n Ed. (Paperback)

I bought this book during a trip to the Gulf of Maine, and found it to be an extremely useful guide to the invertebrates, vertebrates, and algae of the NE coast of North America.

Photos in the field guide are composed well and show detail needed to figure out what you are looking at. Each photo in the book is accompanied by a brief summary of identifying characteristics of the organism itself, a description of habitats where they are likely to be seen, the geographic range for the organism, and brief comments that will help you look in the right kinds of places to see things.

Though not a comprehensive guide to marine life of the region, this book provides a great introduction to marine biota. The author even provides room in the book for you to write down where and when you saw each entry. There is also room for brief comments.

I highly recommend this book, especially if you are planning a trip to New England or the Maritime Provinces.

Good stuff!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide to Marine Life, September 9, 2004

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Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marine Life of the North Atlantic: Canada to New England (Paperback)

There are many reason why people take up scuba diving and those who do come from all countries and all social backgrounds. Having taken up the sport, there are those decide to specialise in; Teaching, shipwrecks, cave diving, photography, video, technical diving and so forth. In fact, there is no other sport on earth which offers such a diversity of different interests within that single activity.

Having learned to dive and having leaned towards a specific aspect, however, there is one single interest which continues to bind all divers together. That interest is the marine life which divers encounter wherever they go.

Neither sky divers, pot-holers nor mountaineers get as close to a whole new range of creatures as scuba divers do - on each and every dive. Those creatures may be static (fixed) and yet still classed as animal, they may be free swimming, shy, hard to find or easy to pick up. And, if those creatures are found in the North Atlantic between Canada and New England, they are also found in this book.

Marine Life of the North Atlantic is a paper-back book measuring 9" x 6" (23cm x 15cm) containing 272 pages of solid information on marine life from Algae to the Spiny Lumpsucker fish. Each species is portrayed by colour photography (often more than once) with details of it's Latin name, common name, identification (description) habitat, range and comments. Alongside each photo is also space for the owner of the book to note down each personal sighting and add notes etc.

In short, if ever you are diving in the area covered by this book and are interested in what you may see underwater, then this book is an essential addition to your kit bag and is one which will allow you to note each sighting as your diving progresses.

Please note, the pages of this book are not waterproof and easily stick together when damp. Otherwise, an excellent product.

NM

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent photo identification guide., May 22, 1999

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jaudet71 "jaudet71" (Maine) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Marine Life of the North Atlantic : Canada to New England 2n Ed. (Paperback)

This book has many outstanding pictures. This book is a great picture identification guide with a lot of clear descriptions of subjects and their habitat. It has a place beside each picture to keep track of when and where you saw each subject making you want to find more and more of the featured subjects. It covers from seaweeds to sharks and everything in between. It shows all the ocean life you are likely to find as a diver, snorkeler or beach comber.