Richard Ellis, Author . Island Press/Shearwater $26 (375p) ISBN 978-1-55963-974-3
This is not just another apocalyptic ecology book, lamenting the decline and extinction of too many sea species and the concomitant pollution of their watery habitats. Rather, Ellis (Imagining Atlantis) uses his considerable narrative skills, along...
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Richard Ellis, Author . Univ. Press of Kansas $29.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1269-7
Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, oh, my! The prehistoric oceans and shallow seas that covered most of present-day North America and Europe were rife with such now-extinct monsters. They evolved from land reptiles that returned to the...
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Richard Ellis, Author . Island/Shearwater $26.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-55963-532-5
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) frequently relies on medicines created from the body parts of animals that are rumored to have curative properties. Sea horses, for example, when consumed in large quantities, are alleged to cure everything from...
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Richard Ellis, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (429p) ISBN 978-0-679-40639-6
Few creatures have captured the imaginations of so many for so long as have monsters of the deep. Their history has been surprisingly consistent, the author notes. Most began as myths and then acquired a sense of reality when the existence of...
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Richard Ellis, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43324-8
Author of the acclaimed Monsters of the Deep and The Book of Whales, Ellis turns his attention here to the bottom of the sea--to the Atlantic floor. He reviews the history of deep-sea exploration from the 19th-century British Challenger expedition...
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Richard Ellis, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-44602-6
Marine painter and explorer Ellis (Deep Atlantic) has produced a gracefully written, authoritative debunking of the myth of a ""lost continent"" of Atlantis. He regards Plato's tale of the flood-related destruction of a wondrous city as a parable on
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Richard Ellis, Author Lyons Press $35 (336p) ISBN 978-1-55821-689-1
It is surpassingly strange that, as Ellis writes, ""no one has ever seen a living, healthy giant squid""--for, judging from the evidence, comprised mostly of carcasses and the remains found in sperm whales, there are a multitude of the beasts out...
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Richard Ellis, Author Viking Books $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-03023-1
The ancestors of today's whales, manatees and seals were in fact terrestrial (some even looked rather like wolves); circa 50 million years ago, however, they returned to the sea. Prolific nature writer and marine life artist Richard Ellis (The...
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Richard Ellis, Author, Richard Ellis, Illustrator . HarperCollins $25.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-06-055803-1
In his latest book, multitalented marine naturalist Ellis (Imagining Atlantis; The Empty Ocean
) broadens his attention from life in the oceans to an examination of the process of animal extinction. Readers will be tantalized by brief descriptions...
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Richard Ellis, Author, Richard Ellis, Illustrator Knopf Publishing Group $35 (380p) ISBN 978-0-375-40374-3
Biologist Ellis's previous books (The Search for the Giant Squid, etc.) have made him America's foremost writer on marine research. His 10th is a mighty reference work, encompassing in thousands of alphabetical entries not just the fish, plants and...
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Richard Ellis, Author, Ashbel Green, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $40 (542p) ISBN 978-0-394-55839-4
In a sequel to The Book of Whales , marine writer-artist Ellis explores the relationship between whales and humans from the time of Alexander the Great to the present. Organized whaling began with the Basques in the Bay of Biscay around A.D. 1000;...
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Richard Ellis, Author . Knopf $26.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-307-26715-3
Ellis (The Book of Sharks
) covers everything one could want to know about the “biggest, fastest, warmest-blooded, warmest-bodied fish in the world,” describing the various species of tuna and giving a thorough account of the history of...
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Richard Ellis, Author . Knopf $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-27059-7
As climate change continues to shrink Arctic winter ice fields, the polar bear faces extinction possibly by the end of the century, a stark reality wrought vivid by prolific science writer Ellis (Tuna
) in this well-sourced geographical, historical,
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Richard Ellis. Univ. of Chicago, $26 (296p) ISBN 0226922901
Ellis—marine biologist, author (The Great Sperm Whale), and painter—adds a thorough exploration of Xiphias gladius to his expansive library of books about sea creatures. Once hunted as large game by "macho fishermen" such as Ernest Hemingway and...
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