Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea and Dancing to the Fossil Record - Softcover

Ray Troll; Bradford Matsen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898157781 ISBN 13: 9780898157789

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is the paperback edition of the great pop-paleontology book with the fabulous art that inspired a show that toured the nation's natural history museums. In its own way it has inspired many people to take a new look at the fossil record and imagine creatures and things as they might have been—a blend of word and image unlike any other.

About this title

About the Author:

BRAD MATSEN has been a merchant seaman, charter pilot, and commercial fisherman, and is currently the senior editor of National Fisherman magazine. He is the author of several books about the Northwest and a documentary for PBS. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
From his treetop studio in Ketchikan, Alaska, RAY TROLL draws and paints fishy images that migrate ’round the globe into museums, onto T-shirts, and into books. Basing his “out of the ooze and born to cruise” images on the latest scientific research, Ray brings street smarts to the world of ichthyology and paleontology. Previous collaborations with Brad Matsen include PLANET OCEAN and SHOCKING FISH TALES. Ray and his wife, Michelle, have two kids.

From Library Journal:

Offering a combination of evolution and paleontology with a large dose of extinction, the authors state that "650 million years ago, give or take a few million years, the sea was mother and father to us all" and that we all have a vertebrate in common from the Pikaia, a walking fish. They thus poke some fun at both creationists and evolutionists. Their writing is clear and entertaining, and the illustrations are similar to their earlier Shocking Fish Tales (Ten Speed Pr., 1993), but Planet Ocean has more variety. Unfortunately, the layout of the illustrations sometimes interrupts the text. Interesting and appealing aesthetically, this book is nevertheless hard to place. The illustrations are art, while the text is closer to science. For larger collections with an interest in current evolutionary theory for the lay reader.
Jean E. Crampon, Hancock Biology & Oceanography Lib., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0898157781
• ISBN 13: 9780898157789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144