Work 06 / 08 · 2023
2023 Taipei International Book Exhibition — Children's Theme Pavilion
Ocean's Words
hǎi yāng yāng, Ocean Book Selection
Total: 140 selected books
Ages 1–6 (21 books)
- Kon-Tiki: Arctic Expedition Diary, Hiroto Abe
Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Picture-book author and illustrator. Former zoo animal keeper. Learned philosophy from gorillas, learned to paint from elephants. Loves cats. Loves to drink.What interests me most is the packing list of gear for an artist’s grand voyage to the Arctic. — Japan - Pacu Pacu, Katsumi Komagata
Pacu Pacu is well-fed.A minimalist ocean picture book is the most captivating kind. — Japan - Là Où Tout Est Blanc, Giulia Vetri
“I live over there, toward the white… I disappear into the snow — can you see me?”The most beautiful interpretation of and question about whiteness. — France - Incroyables Abysses (Incredible Depths)
“Dive into an unknown world, enchanting and luminous.”
Using 9 pop-up pages, it takes you 6,000 meters underwater — a visual deep dive. — France - A Home in 100 Floors Under the Sea, Toshio Iwai
Small children love first impressions — which is your children’s first ocean book? — Japan (translated) - The Sea, Satoshi Kako
Have you seen the sea?
The sea is deep blue, vast, shimmering, abundant, calm — but sometimes turbulent too.
The first book to fully illustrate an entire ecosystem! — Japan (translated) - Cargo
“We can no longer tell the sea from the sky.”
A boy’s night-sea adventure with a fierce traveling seagull. — France - Flotsam, David Wiesner
A lover of ocean observation — but the ocean is watching you too. — USA (translated) - Lemanja, Goddess of the Ocean, Sabina Álvarez Schürmann
“He sails where no one else does.”
My favorite myth, one that hopes people will “cherish the ocean.” — Argentina - La Grande Amie, Ylva Karlsson and Eva Lindström
“Caio’s dearest wish was to have a blue whale for a friend.”
The whale boy — I hope his wish comes true. — France - NACÉO
“Dive into Nacéo, swim among fish, crustaceans, and shellfish…”
The sea-dwellers disperse on command! Becoming silhouettes, patterns, and shapes. — France - In a Beautiful River, Katsumi Komagata
The expression of beauty is endless — plus a food chain set against deep sea blue. — Japan - Edison, Torben Kuhlmann
“The University of Mice”
Curiosity is every species’ most powerful friend. — Germany - Pleine Mer (Open Sea), Antoine Guilloppé
“The sea is like a mirror.”
I was immediately convinced: freediving is the most beautiful thing. — France - Je suis la méduse (I Am the Jellyfish), Béatrice Fontanel & Alexandra Huard
“I am a jellyfish; a jellyfish, but… a very small jellyfish. I’m just beginning.
I babble my first dances in the delicious salty waters.
Let’s go this way a little, and now that way.”
When jellyfish occupy the sea, warm, radiant, and poetic. — France - Dr. Seahide Is Here, Leo Timmers
Just an ordinary day: Dr. Seahide pilots his special mini-submarine, diving down to heal the animals of the sea — whether it’s a dolphin whose tail won’t move, a sardine whose whole body smells foul, or a jellyfish with back pain, Dr. Seahide can cure them all.
Doctors and nurses are said to be the most patient creatures in the world. — Belgium - M, comme la mer (M, like the sea), Joanna Concejo
“M. had blue eyes. Truly very blue — like the sea, like the sky, like the piece of glass kept in the candy tin where he stored all his treasures.”
If you had sea-blue eyes, would looking at the ocean feel different? — France - Olive & Léandre, Alex Cousseau & Janik Coat
“On the same day, an octopus living far in the south set off toward the north.
Both of them longed for company. They wanted to go see somewhere else.”
Note: Finding Nemo’s Dory makes a cameo appearance on the endpapers. — France - Tout Au Fond (All the Way Down), Philippe Ug
“The procession of zooplankton… hides beneath the jellyfish’s skirts…”
Five dark deep-sea pages showing the forms of five mid- to high-level predators. — France - The Whale Who Came to Stay, Benji Davies
Noi tries everything he can to make the whale feel at home.
Round, chubby animals equal cute. — Petersburg, Canada - The Sea’s Secret Concerns, Seed Design
Underwater archaeology is not underwater treasure-hunting. — Taiwan
Ages 7–12 (119 books)
- The Book of Eels, Patrik Svensson
“In the depths of the sea, the Earth’s rotation and the rise and fall of the sun mean nothing; the aging of living things seems to follow different rules. If eternal — or nearly eternal — life truly exists, it can only be found by going into the sea.”
The eel’s life history intertwines with a father-son relationship. — Sweden - The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting
“A naturalist… is someone who knows about everything — whether it’s beasts, trees, rocks, whatever.”
Imagination with a scientific backbone: scientific language carrying imagination, needed to talk with animals. — USA - Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
“Whether standing at the helm through raging storms for over thirty hours, beyond the limits of human endurance, or laboring to row in and out of harbor in dead calm — none of this was unusual for the crew of the Spray. As long as my ship sails, wherever I may be, I can live my days in joyful ease.”
An eruption of longing for the great migratory voyage. — Canada - Sixteen Men Stranded on a Deserted Island, Kunihiko Sugawa
“Farewell, little island, farewell, seals.”
My very first desert-island survival story. — Japan - The Unnatural History of the Sea, Callum Roberts
Humanity can easily bring an end to marine life! — When our ocean’s history reveals such unnatural behavior. - The Optimist, David Coggins
“Fly fishing has taken me to a part of a heightened world. I knew something changed when I began dreaming of fish.”
A sensuous, poetic act of hunting. — USA - 40 Meters Under Pingtung’s Sea, Seed Design / Pingtung County Government
Opening toward the sea, conspiring with the sea. A sensory encyclopedia of Taiwan’s most beautiful diving base. — Taiwan - A Whale of the Wild, Patrick Ness
“We whales place great faith in prophecy. When I was young, still just a foolish little whale calf, I had no idea what the world held. My grandmother told me plainly: ‘You will become a hunter.’”
A story proving that a prophecy against humanity need not always hold true. — USA - A Guide to Secret Islands, Hiroshi Shimizu
The remote isolation of the open sea — exploration, never-ending. — Japan - Under the Sea-Wind, Rachel Carson (Sea Trilogy I)
“And from the scale of geological time, the relationship between ocean, coast, and mountain is likewise but a single instant — for mountains will eventually be eroded by endless seawater, carried to sea as silt, and every coastline will once again be filled by the sea, and the towns upon the shore will in the end return to the sea.”
Honestly, as an ocean fanatic, the Sea Trilogy convinced me long ago. — USA - The Edge of the Sea, Rachel Carson (Sea Trilogy II)
“The great swarms of diatoms flicker faintly in the night sea — what message are they conveying? And the barnacle armies, whitening the rocks with their colonies, each tiny creature within needing only what the sweeping waves bring — what truth do they express?” Same reason as above. — USA - The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson (Sea Trilogy III)
“The sea around us — vast and boundless, hard even for birds to cross, awe-inspiring.” Same reason as above. — USA - Black Tide: An Island Voyage, Wu Ming-Yi / Chang Hui-Chun et al.
Set out on the great sea route! Let us no longer collectively turn our backs to the sea. — Taiwan - La Danse De La Mer (The Sea’s Dance), Laëtitia Devernay
The cool, elegant dance of the sea is mesmerizing. — France - Field Guide to Freshwater Fish (Japanese field guide), Kimiyoshi Hayashi, Yoshikazu Osada, Akira Gotō, Nobunori Nishijima
Knowledge is power. — Japan - Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Weeping for the loss of childhood innocence and for the darkness of human nature — the most incisive portrait of desert island survival and boys’ minds. — UK - Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton
“None would likely have survived the Antarctic winter without Cook.”
The ultimate expedition draws as close as possible to the Earth’s extremes — and comes back whole. — (France, in original text) - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (original French translation, Yeren edition)
We are all children of Verne. Motion within motion is utterly captivating. — France - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (Ecus edition)
“The question posed in Ecclesiastes: who has ever sounded the depths of the abyss? Today only two people in the world can answer that — Captain Nemo, and I.”
A masterwork of ocean exploration from 153 years ago, still unsurpassed. — France - Moby-Dick, Melville (older Guiguan Classics edition)
“You who overturn heaven and earth, unconquerable white whale — I will surge upon you! To the very end, I will fight you to the death! Even in hell, I will still stab at you! Even as you draw your last breath, I will still despise you — my hatred is endless.”
The ultimate gratitude that humanity produced such an unmatched whale/ocean masterpiece. — USA - Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
“Whiteness is, on the one hand, a symbol of all things spiritual — yet the veil of Christian divinity also carries the most terrifying power. Why is this so?”
A literary encyclopedia of whales — whatever you want to know about whales, you can find the author’s view of it here. — USA - When Jellyfish Take Over the Sea, Lisa-Ann Gershwin
Jellyfish, misbehaving.
After finishing When Jellyfish Take Over the Sea, one solution seemed to be: eat them all!
The best jellyfish for eating is the sea nettle, so I once tried to acquire a taste for cold jellyfish salad…
But I still couldn’t muster the heart to eat my way through the ocean’s problems. — Australia - Diver (magazine), New Terrain
The underwater world knows no borders. — Japan - The World’s Most Beautiful Squid and Octopus Guide, Tsunemi Kubodera
Even though a field guide is designed around the base of the food chain, beauty still has its heights. — Japan - The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel, Ernst Haeckel
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
A century-old work of scientific/aesthetic illustration, unsurpassed to this day. — Germany - Japan’s Fifty-Three Aquariums, edited by Hiroshi Miyazawa
This is where a small creature’s view of ocean life first takes root. — Japan - The Children of Captain Grant, Vol. 1, Jules Verne
For Jules Verne, “Captain” seems to be the highest title any character could hold. — FranceVol. 2 — Our second volume has also gone missing. - Vol. 3 — “On his chest was tattooed a strange bird emblem — the bird spreading its wings, pecking at his heart.” — France
- Becoming Salmon, Marianne Elisabeth Lien
An ethnography of “the fish’s city” — insects and ocean food: seaweed and low-carbon-footprint fixed-net-farmed fish are the future of what we consume. — Norway - The Burning Sea, Kazutoshi Hando
“Only the cold sea surface glows — there are no survivors.”
The book to choose when you need to show, in your early ocean-reading days, “the books I read are tough.” — Japan - The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
“I remember the fish’s tail thrashing, the seat plank cracking, and the sound of the club striking the fish. I remember you shoving me hard toward the bow, where the wet coil of line lay, feeling the whole boat trembling, hearing the crack-crack of the club on the fish, like the sound of chopping down a tree, and remembering that I was covered all over in the sweet smell of blood.”
My first ocean book I devoured with real delight. — USA - The Swarm, Part 1, Frank Schätzing
“The day before yesterday. What happened the day before yesterday? An explosion.”
Reconstructing the crime scene of Moby-Dick — apparently whales are the most maddening thing. — Germany - The Swarm, Part 2, Frank Schätzing
“Love, deeper than the ocean.” — When the sea has a Hagen, what would you want him to do? — Germany - The Swarm, Part 3, Frank Schätzing
“Up, down, up, down, monotonous, the waves lift Deep Fly high, then let her fall, up down, up down. Deep Fly hovers on the sea surface… She feels trapped in a schizophrenic elevator, up down up down, the waves are high and evenly spaced, wave after wave, like a monotonous grey cliff, moving steadily.” — Germany - Extreme Life of the Sea, Stephen R. Palumbi & Anthony R. Palumbi
“The sea is the richest stage in our world.”
Please become an extremist for understanding the extremes of the ocean. — USA - The Ship, C.S. Forester
An unknown undersea world humanity cannot go down and witness for itself — but perhaps humans truly can, trapped inside a hull of assembled steel…
Cold, iron-hard prose like a battleship, narrating one of humanity’s most brutal chapters of history. — USA - Deep, James Nestor
“Sure, the human body could dive deeper than scientists thought possible, but it also had limits.”
A single will and a single breath — exploring the limits of the human body. — USA - Scuba Confidential, Simon Pridmore
“Scuba exceptional — become the best diver you can be.”
Is insatiability perhaps one key to human evolution? — UK - Free Dive, Guillaume Néry
“Compared to the sea, I’m more familiar with mountains — but that doesn’t stop me from going to the river.”
The very embodiment of the Prince of the Sea, in personality and appearance. — France - The Ultimate Dive Log Book
A dive log is where a diver’s reason and emotion intersect. — USA - 100 Dives of a Lifetime, Carrie Miller, National Geographic
“Astonishing schools of fish, unexplored caves. For generations, the sea has sparked our sense of adventure.”
Inner space is the most beautiful landscape beneath the Earth’s surface. — USA - The Freediving Bible, Umberto Pelizzari & Stefano Tovaglieri
Sports science is the art of studying the ultimate human body. — Italy - Freediving Training Secrets, Umberto Pelizzari — Same as above.
- The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing, Kirk Deeter & Charlie Meyers
“Stop! In the name of love (and a good cast).”
A perfect companion to A River Runs Through It — this book will absolutely make you fall in love with fly fishing. — USA - The Culinary Art of Fish
Why did cooking fish become my life’s work? — To expand the wall of the book collection’s database, one’s selections must be omnivorous too. — Taiwan - Four Fish, Paul Greenberg
Behind every Michelin star lies an oceanic catastrophe! What will the future of seafood culture look like? — Canada - Strange Seafood Shop, Huang Chih-Yang
The fish is quite handsome, with a pair of clear, luminous large eyes.
From fear of the sea to hunger for the sea — the motive behind the deliciousness. — Taiwan - A Little Encyclopedia of Fishing Secrets (Japanese pocket guide), Ayuro Suzuki
A pocket encyclopedia in the style of a genius child angler. — Japan - The Wonder of Whales/The North Water, Ian McGuire
“Especially after enduring the inhumane conditions of India — hellish heat, savage brutality, and stench. Whatever whaling in Greenland might bring, he thought, it surely couldn’t be worse than that.”
Depicts the dark side of the great white whale — “the darkness of whaling” — in a way that leaves you helplessly chilled. — UK - Eskimo Requiem for the Bering Strait / Saltwater in the Blood, Bathsheba Demuth
To tell a history, whale song, the shapes of rocks, and everything in between all form part of the whole. A story of global perspective / industrialization’s struggle with the Bering Strait. — USA - How to Read Water, Tristan Gooley
“The forgotten art of reading nature’s signs.”
A tracker of the sea and the waters. — UK - The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina
“During the day, under the blazing sun, when temperatures reach 100°F (about 38°C), the crew still labors without rest. Drinking water is strictly monitored, most of the work surfaces are crawling with cockroaches, and the toilet is built on the deck, mounted on a removable board. At night, parasites crawl across the boys’ unwashed dinner plates, and while rats roam the ship like unrestrained city squirrels, the crew’s own filthy pet dogs barely lift their heads.”
The most complete book today for understanding the dark side of those who work the sea. — USA - The Sea-Wolf, Jack London
“This man has fallen from the peak of life to a state worse than death… his life has vanished with the storm… yet he still lives… he possesses too great a strength.”
The strength and feeling of a man of the sea run as deep as the ocean itself. — USA - The Narrative of the Voyage of the Polestar / Arctic Adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle
“At 80° north latitude, I became a true man.”
The early Arctic diary of Sherlock Holmes’ father figure — Conan Doyle himself. — UK - TRANSIT no.55 (magazine)
“Fish, humans, and sea anemones — the sea is everyone’s home!”
The most cutting-edge, innovative discourse, all within the magazine’s pages. — Japan - If Taiwan’s Surroundings Are the Sea, Hao Ming-Yi
These people — whether young in years, or young at heart — let us see Taiwan’s new vitality and light amid the darkness. An analysis of opinions across all facets of an island nation. — Taiwan - Folklore of Men — Great Catch Chapter, Endo Takashi
These people work hard to adapt to the harsh natural environment of high mountains and open sea — their perseverance, humility, and careful way of living, along with the exquisite functionality and unique creativity of every common tool of daily life, all reveal a shared culture deeply rooted in the customs of the land. A folkloric compendium of the humanity and folk customs of sea-people. — Japan - The Log from the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck
“…covered in wounds, he swam back to La Paz under cover of night, creeping to the shore like a fox hunter, dug the pearl out from under the rock, cursed it, then hurled it with all his strength into the sea — though his soul was in danger, he had no food, and no shelter from the wind and rain, he was free again.”
I hope, through words, to breathe in the sea breeze and sink deep into the ocean. — USA - Adrift, Steven Callahan
“The script sounds simple enough: hold on, ration food and water, catch fish, maintain the still.”
The first time, as a child, I truly understood how deadly the vastness of the ocean can be. — USA - Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
“Part of the hull had already sunk to a depth of 24 feet, and the long-hungry small fish treated it as their new restaurant. Truly a hole full of surprises.”
The ocean should be our environment’s diluting agent. — USA - The Wavewatcher’s Companion, Gavin Pretor-Pinney
“Genesis records that when God created all things, the very first act was to set the sea in motion.”
Able to lead everyone into the world of waves, to become a wave-watcher. — UK - Japan’s Sea Slugs, Rie Nakano
Once you can call it by name, you begin to feel affection for it. — Japan - Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, Brian Fagan
“My only fishing achievement in this life was, many years ago, in a calm little stream in England, tickling a trout’s belly with my fingers and successfully catching it.”
How does one become a member of ocean civilization? — UK - Treasures of Kenting 2, Chiu Yu-Wen, Su Chun-Yu
Once you can call it by name (2). — Taiwan - The Sea-Wolf, Jack London (older edition)
“As if biting into me, destroying me, tearing apart my nerve center, bit by bit, cell by cell, devouring the tissue — the result is agonizing pain.”
Is a whaling ship’s hierarchy of rank equivalent to the food chain? — USA - The Sound of the Sea, Cynthia Barnett
“Shells are often a message — to scientists, to diviners, to the faithful — through the sound of shells, calling people together to gather. Shells are often gifts too…”
The kinship and origin story of the sea and shells. — USA - Farewell to Ice, Peter Wadhams
“I firmly believe such change will extinguish the soul of the Earth, and at the same time bring enormous catastrophe upon humankind.”
As we must bid farewell to the ice caps. — UK - The Secret Life of Kelp / Kelp, Ruth Kassinger
“Algae made it possible for humans to appear and to survive — and if we are wise and clever enough, algae could still help us save ourselves.”
Algae gives humanity air and could become our future staple food — yet it is also destroying the ocean and creating dead zones. — USA - A Guide to Taiwan’s Cetaceans, Chou Lien-Shiang
Wanting to become a spiritual sibling to Avatar’s Tulkun — first you must get to know the “Tulkun” of the humans living around Taiwan’s shores. — Taiwan - A Compendium of Marine Life, Zhang Chenliang
Eating small seafood dishes to pass the time — a folk history of seafood culture spanning great swaths of history. — China - A Guide to Taiwan’s Coral Reef Fish, Shao Kwang-Tsao, Shao Yi-Ta, Lin Pei-Li
Knowledge is power. — Taiwan - Common Venomous Marine Creatures, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
Just love them, don’t fear them. — Taiwan - Treasures of Kenting — Shelled Marine Gastropods, Chiu Yu-Wen, Su Chun-Yu
Legend says the cone snail is a surfer’s sacred object? — Taiwan - Ichthyology, Chen Chien-Shan, Fei Hung-Nien
Fellow knowledge omnivores, please consume this dense, technical fish physiology. — Taiwan - An In-Depth Introduction to Kenting’s Best Dive Sites, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
A one-of-a-kind topographic map of dive sites. — Taiwan - Traveling with Darwin, Luca Novelli
Assigned reading by my parents in elementary school — the only thing I remember clearly is the ship’s name: the Beagle. — Italy - The Complete Sailing Manual, Steve Sleight
“Happy sailing!”
The crystallization, in a single grand tome, of my life’s greatest love of knowledge and personal perspective. — USA - An Iceland Fisherman, Pierre Loti
“Outside, it must be sea and night, must be black and the endless lament of deep water.”
Can there be anything more romantic than a Frenchman writing about the sea? — France - Islands in the Stream, Hemingway
“He could feel the pounding of the waves; he remembered — it was the same, all those years ago, when he was young, lying near the artillery position, feeling the pounding of heavy guns.”
Hemingway was the first great American writer I ever loved. — USA - A Voyage for Madmen, Nichols Tomalin, Ron Hall
“When it struck the 40-second mark, he leapt into the sea from the stern — forever wanting to become a hero, and at last becoming a man for God — carrying with him the two objects that symbolized his ‘ultimate mistake’ toward destruction: the lying clock and the lying logbook. He left behind ‘the infinite beauty of truth.’”
Ask yourself: if there were nothing in the world but the hull, the endless ocean, and yourself — would you feel crushed by loneliness? — UK - Moby-Dick, Melville
“My name is Ishmael. Some years ago, having no money in my pocket, I went to sea.”
My favorite among these classics designed to speak to the future. — USA - L’Home dels Ulls Compostos (The Man with the Compound Eyes — Slovak edition), Wu Ming-Yi
“De debò que et vols fer a la mar?” (“Do you really want to go to sea?”)
The book cover design alone is enough to earn its place on this list. — Taiwan - My Dream of a Round-the-World Voyage, Liu Ning-Sheng
The first Taiwanese person to sail a yacht around the world. — Taiwan - Sailing Theory and Practice, Liu Ning-Sheng
“The way of sailing.” — Taiwan - When the Whales Disappeared, Yuri Rytkheu
“Why was I born a whale? Because I am a whale — and whales are humanity’s brothers.”
No matter how much whale/ocean literature I read, it’s never enough. — Siberia - Fifteen-Year-Old Castaways / Two Years’ Vacation, Jules Verne
The boys of the Sloughi all grew up after enduring their harsh trial — by the time they returned home, none of them were children anymore.
Never think of a child as an incomplete person. — France - Miniature and Small Shells of the Hengchun Peninsula, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
Know yourself, know your enemy, win every dive. — Taiwan - A Guide to Kenting’s Seaweed, Wang Wei-Lung, Liu Shao-Lun, Lin Yen-Po
Know yourself, know your enemy, win every dive (2). — Taiwan - Kenting National Park — Guide to Octocorals
Know yourself, know your enemy, win every dive (3). — Taiwan - Kenting National Park Waters — Guide to Fish
Know yourself, know your enemy, win every dive (4). — Taiwan - A Complete Guide to Taiwan’s Corals — Scleractinia
Know yourself, know your enemy, win every dive (5). — Taiwan - Tezuka Osamu’s Sea, Tezuka Osamu
In my heart, the greatest manga artist Japan ever produced, bar none. — Japan - A Dictionary of the Sea, Nakamura Takuya
Sea-day — clear, transparent words, and a deep, bottomless ocean. — Japan - The Complete World of Sharks
An unpractical field guide dispersing the personalities of sharks. — Japan - The Deep, Helen Scales
“The deep sea will always let people dream. It remains a place we can neither see nor visit.”
Selected purely for the title. — UK / Japan - How to Speak Whale, Tom Mustill
“We have the power of choice. The choice to lay aside our preconceptions and embrace the awe-inspiring world that surrounds us. The beauty is there, if we choose to see it.”
Bone conduction and the future of communicating with animals through waveforms — the science and art of interspecies dialogue. — UK - A Guide to the Fantastical Creatures of Sea, River, and Lake, Masamichi Takeda & Satoshi Kawasaki
A semi-fantastical selection from Japan’s National Museum of Science and Nature. — Japan - Cephalopods: Amazing and Beautiful Creatures, Tsunemi Kubodera
Soft-bodied cephalopods, yet with a rigorous underlying aesthetic. — Japan - Japan’s Shells, Hiroshi Takashige & Tetsushi Takei
Once you can call its name, you’ll feel affection for it. — Japan - The Rise and Fall of Life at the Water’s Edge, Ken Tsuchiya
This matters greatly! These are ancient marine fossil creatures, after all. — Japan - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
“How I hope it will be so — that his powerful submarine will triumph over that terrifying maelstrom.”
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is, without question, the treasured favorite of any lover of ocean literature. — France / Japan - Wild Ocean, Lucio and Meera Santoro
When you deeply love something, none of its facets escape your love — including its wild side. - The Surfer’s Journal Japan, 12.3
“People, Culture, Travel, Art”
An exquisitely beautiful magazine for wave-riders. — USA - Coastlines, Emily Nathan
“At the water’s edge.”
Humanity and the world’s most beautiful abyss are separated by only a single line. — USA - Here We Are, Oliver Jeffers
“Well, Hello and welcome to this planet. We call it Earth.”… “Then, there is the sea, which is full of wonderful things.”
Because the depiction of the ocean on pages 9–10 is simply too adorable. — Northern Ireland - A Dictionary of Paleontology, Newton (special issue)
The ancient Earth’s ocean was a soup of life. — Japan - Mejor Que Nuevo (Better Than New), Robert Broder
An industry-leading brand should always chart a new direction. — Chile - Deep-Sea Fish Collection, Gento Shinohara
Uncertain whether he intended to present such an unknown, startling aesthetic. — Japan - The Magic of Seabass Big Baits, Shingo Kinugawa
The beauty of lures is like fine dining in the eyes of a stream fish. — Japan - Mimicry Creatures of the Sea, Katsutoshi Ito
Mimicry is an art born of survival and evolution. — Japan - The World’s Whales and Dolphins: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Annalisa Berta
Quiz for you: do cetaceans spout water or air? — USA - An Illustrated Guide to the World’s Underwater Ruins, Jun Kimura & Taro Onobayashi
Could there really be an underwater civilization!? — Japan - Kuroshio — Uonofu, Yusei Nagashima
A pure form of marine species identification. — Japan - Shima Island, Marc Janssen
When the ground beneath your feet is no longer solid — a drifting tale with a giant sea turtle. — Netherlands - Turtle Journeys / Umigameguri, Shunichi Kawasaki
“Crawling out from the burrow, the sun struck my eyes; below it, glimmering, was a pool of water — a pool called the sea. I walk toward it, not knowing what lies there, yet somehow already knowing — yes, I know it.”
A picture book with real gift for ecosystem-storytelling titles. — Japan - Alba and the Ocean Cleanup, Lara Hawthorne
A story about saving our ocean.
Planting beautiful ideas about the environment into small hearts. — UK - Guidebook of Gammaridean Amphipoda, Hiroyuki Ariyama
A delicacy for cetaceans — the book of amphipods. — Japan - The Evolution of Whales, Hiroya Minamizawa, Takashi Oda, Toshiyuki Kimura
The evolutionary history of the sea’s most beloved creatures. — Japan - The Brilliant Deep, Kate Messner & Matthew Forsythe
Rebuilding the world’s oldest living creature — giving coral back its world. — USA & Canada