Extended ocean reading list

Thanks to an incredible response to my earlier blog on ocean books, here is a longer list of salty tales to enjoy on #WorldBookDay!

Take a big breath & dive in…

• Jonathan Balcombe: What a fish knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
• Mark Kurlansky: Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world
• Tony Koslow: The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology and Conservation of the Deep Sea
• Helen Scales: Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells &
• Eye of the Shoal: a fishwatcher’s guide to life, the ocean and everything
• Rose George: Ninety percent of everything
• Rachel Carson: The Sea Around Us
• Philip Hoare: Leviathan, or The Whale
• Callum Roberts: An unnatural history of the sea
• Helen Rozwadowski: Vast Expanses: A history of the oceans &
• Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea

….and more….

• Alexandra Morton: Listening to Whales
• Paul Greenberg: Four fish: The future of the last wild food
• Morten Strøksnes: Shark drunk: The art of catching a large shark from a tiny rubber dinghy in a big ocean
• Midge Raymond: My last continent
• Tim Winton: Blue Back
• Sy Montgomery: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
• Scott Kraus & Rosalind Rolland: The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads
• Erich Hoyt: Orca: The Whale Called Killer
• Julia Whitty: Deep Blue Home
• Joshua Horwitz: War of the Whales

This list is made up of suggestions from: @JamesBellOcean @EcoJustice @klondyker @FiveMetreStop @ClaassensLouw @pkhardy @Andrewaquac @BenthicAnnabell @seamounty @BD_Stew @mcmckinno @oceansresearch @MitoRem @KatieMWatson @artofactivism

Thank you all for your suggestions, I’ll be kept busy this year!