OceanHere 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. See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
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Filed under: Ocean 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
Filed under: Ocean -- Folklore 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
Filed under: Ocean -- Folklore -- Early works to 1800 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.
Filed under: Flying Dutchman -- FictionFiled under: Flying Dutchman -- Juvenile fiction
Filed under: Mermaids -- Fiction
Filed under: Mermaids -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 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. Filed under: Mermaids -- Juvenile fiction 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) Filed under: Sea monsters 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)
Filed under: Sea monsters -- FictionFiled under: Sea monsters -- West Indies 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.
Filed under: Marine ecology -- Juvenile literature The Travels of a Barnacle (first page of main text missing; New York: The Abbey Press, 1901), by Mrs. James Edwin Morris
Filed under: Geology -- Research -- Greenland BasinFiled under: Marine sediments -- Research -- Greenland BasinFiled under: Shipwrecks -- Arctic Ocean 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 Filed under: Atlantic Ocean 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)
Filed under: Transatlantic flights 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) Filed under: Indian Ocean 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) Filed under: Law of the seaFiled under: Marine ecologyFiled under: Ocean salinity 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 Filed under: Pacific OceanFiled under: Shipping
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