From the seashore to the seafloor an illustrated tour of sandy beaches, kelp forests, coral reefs, and life in the ocean's depths text by Janet Voight ; paintings by Peggy Macnamara ; with a foreword by David Quammen

Object Details

Notes

"Published in association with the Field Museum"

NH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books

Contents

1. Sandy shores -- 2. Rocky shores -- 3. Gulf of California -- 4. Northeast Pacific -- 5. Kelp forest -- 6. Coral reefs -- 7. Indo-West Pacific -- 8. Research cruise experience -- 9. Open ocean -- 10. Subsea vehicles -- 11. Gulf of Mexico -- 12. Midwater depths -- 13. Deep scattering layer -- 14. Hydrothermal vents -- 15. Food falls -- 16. Deep-sea floor

Summary

"Field Museum Associate Curator of Zoology and specialist in cephalopod mollusks, Janet Voight, has partnered with Peggy Macnamara, Artist-in-Residence at the Museum, to provide readers with an understanding of the ocean and its animals from the seashore to the seafloor. This book combines rich scientific descriptions of the animals that inhabit rocky and sandy shores, the fragility of coral reefs, and the ingenuity of creatures that must search for food in the ocean's depths, where light and heat are rare. The book includes beautiful watercolors of all these ecosystems and other scenes experienced by Voight during research cruises in the ocean's depths using the submersible Alvin, operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A foreword by award-winning science writer David Quammen situates the importance of Voight's work, including her studies of octopuses. The book also includes a series of artist's notes that allows readers to understand the techniques that Macnamara developed to create the book's stunning visual effects"-- Provided by publisher

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2022

author

Voight, Janet

artist

Macnamara, Peggy

writer of foreword

Quammen, David 1948-

publisher

Field Museum of Natural History

Type

Pictorial works

Ouvrages illustrés

Illustrated works

Physical description

xi, 131 pages color illustrations, color map 16 x 22 cm

Topic

Marine animals

Marine ecology

Faune marine

Record ID

siris_sil_1155362

Usage

CC0