Ocean
Here are entered geographical descriptions of the world's oceans, including popular accounts of their various features and \"mysteries.\" Works on the scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena are entered under Oceanography.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Ocean -- Folklore
- Ocean -- Juvenile literature
- Ocean -- Mythology
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Law of the sea
- Marine ecology
- Marine resources
- Ocean salinity
- Ocean temperature
- Oceanography -- Research
- Pacific Ocean
- Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean
- Shipping
- Oceans
- Sea, The
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La Mer dans les Traditions et les Industries Indigènes à Rabat et Salé (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1920), by Louis Brunot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- The Ocean and its Wonders, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- The Sea and its Story, From Viking Ship to Submarine (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), ed. by Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Sea and Its Wonders (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Sea and Its Wonders (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1884), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby
- Le Folk-Lore des Pêcheurs (in French; Paris: J. Maissoneuve, 1901), by Paul Sébillot
- Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors In All Lands and at All Times (Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke, and Co., 1885), by Fletcher S. Bassett
- Wander-Ships: Folk-Stories of the Sea, With Notes Upon Their Origin (Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1917), by Wilbur Bassett
- A Most Strange and True Report of a Monsterous Fish, Who Appeared in the Forme of a Woman, From Her Waste Upwardes (London: Imprinted for W.B., ca. 1604), by P. G.
- The Phantom Ship, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
- Golden Goblin, or, The Flying Dutchman, Junior: A Pleasant Fantasy for Children Based on the Most Fascinating of All Undying Legends, Told in Prose and Verse (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1906), by Curtis Dunham, illust. by George F. Kerr (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Sea Lady (illustrated; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902), by H. G. Wells, illust. by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer
- The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Most Strange and True Report of a Monsterous Fish, Who Appeared in the Forme of a Woman, From Her Waste Upwardes (London: Imprinted for W.B., ca. 1604), by P. G.
- The Sea Fairies (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1911), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by John R. Neill
- The Flower Princess (with "The Little Friend", "The Mermaid's Child", and "The Ten Blowers"; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Abbie Farwell Brown
- Golden Goblin, or, The Flying Dutchman, Junior: A Pleasant Fantasy for Children Based on the Most Fascinating of All Undying Legends, Told in Prose and Verse (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1906), by Curtis Dunham, illust. by George F. Kerr (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Sea Serpents: Wisconsin Occurrences of These Weird Water Monsters in the Four Lakes, Rock, Red Cedar, Koshkonong, Geneva, Elkhart, Michigan, and Other Lakes (Madison, WI: Wisconsin folklore society, 1942), by Charles E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Great Sea-Serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise (1892), by A. C. Oudemans
- Sea Monsters Unmasked (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1883), by Henry Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth (London: Rolfe and Fletcher, 1834), by Thomas Hawkins (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Creatures of the Abyss (New York: Berkley Pub. Co., 1961), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Moon and the Sun (with other fiction), by Vonda N. McIntyre (multiple formats with commentary at vondamcintyre.com)
- Great News From the West-Indies: Sent in a Letter to a Merchant of London, November the 28th, 1687 (London: Printed by H. Wallis, 1687), by F. H.
- The Travels of a Barnacle (first page of main text missing; New York: The Abbey Press, 1901), by Mrs. James Edwin Morris
- Opportunities and Priorities in Arctic Geoscience (1991), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Opportunities and Priorities in Arctic Geoscience (1991), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
- The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
- Cruise of School-Ship "Mercury" in Tropical Atlantic Ocean, 1870-1871, by New York (New York) Department of Public Charities and Correction (page images at MOA)
- Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography (research series #8; New York: American Geographical Society, 1922), by William Henry Babcock
- Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
- Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1898), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, illust. by Albert Herter (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
- 20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Amelia Earhart (page images at HathiTrust)
- "We" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927), by Charles A. Lindbergh, contrib. by Myron T. Herrick and Fitzhugh Green
- The First Flight Across the Atlantic, May, 1919, by Ted Wilbur (PDF files at navy.mil)
- Voyage dans l'Inde et au Bengale, Fait dans les Années 1789 et 1790 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Dentu, 1801), by L. de Grandpré (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the year 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale (with A Voyage in the Red Sea; Boston: Printed by D. Carlisle for W. Pelham and and W. P. and L. Blake, 1803), by L. de Grandpré
- A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Years 1789 and 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale (with A Voyage in the Red Sea, in 2 volumes; London: Printed for G. and J. Robinson, 1803), by L. de Grandpré (both volumes :page images at loc.gov)
- The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), ed. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
- Consulate of the Sea, and Related Documents, ed. by Stanley S. Jados (PDF files at Libro)
- The Freedom of the Seas: or, The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade (New York: Oxford University Press, 1916), by Hugo Grotius, trans. by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin (PDF at McMaster)
- Marine Anthropogenic Litter (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2015), ed. by Melanie Bergmann, Lars Gutow, and Michael Klages (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Open)
- Restoring and Protecting Marine Habitat: The Role of Engineering and Technology (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Procedures for Quantitative Ecological Assessments in Intertidal Environments (1978), by J. J. Gonor and P. F. Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Study of the Salinity of the Surface Water in the North Pacific Ocean and in the Adjacent Enclosed Seas (Smithsonian Miscellanous Collections v60 #13 (Publication #2153); 1912), by Austin Hobart Clark
- A Study of the Salinity of the Surface Water in the North Pacific Ocean and in the Adjacent Enclosed Seas (Smithsonian Miscellanous Collections v60 #13 (Publication #2153); 1912), by Austin Hobart Clark
- Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Of Ships and Men (Netherlands Government information service booklet, second edition, 1962), by H. Rodriguez (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)
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