读者们将在这本书从A到Z认识海洋里各式各样的动物，再透过可爱的黑白去插图去了解它们的生命。

人类自古以来被海洋吸引，但对于大部分人来说，海洋其实多我们很遥远，很难体验。现在，读者能透过这本书来了解海洋里的不同生物。从白鲸到飞鱼，从海龟到鲨鱼，从海牛（以及海狮、海獭、海菜）到金枪鱼、旗鱼、海象、海蛇。不单是介绍这些海中生物，作者将海洋动物的自然历史与人们在海上和世界海岸线上的经历连接在一起。从最早的波利尼西亚航海家的第一手叙述到Wampanoag的贝壳艺术家，从非裔美国人的捕鲸人道韩国的女性潜水员，再道今天的深海潜水机，甚至在小说、诗篇、画像里面的虚构海洋生物，都在这本书里有价值。在一起，这些元素呈现了作者的本意：我们需要关怀大海洋，改善人类与它的关系，善待它。

关于作者：

Richard J. King is visiting professor with the Sea Education Association and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, as well as founding coeditor of Searchable Sea Literature and a research associate with Williams College-Mystic Seaport. For more than twenty years he has been sailing and teaching aboard tall ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He writes and illustrates a column on marine animals for Sea History magazine and was the founding series editor of Seafaring America. He lives with his family in Santa Cruz, CA.

目录：

Abalone

Architeuthis dux Beluga

Chinstrap Penguin

Dolphinfish

Electric Ray

Flying Fish

Frigatebird

Grampus

Green Turtle

Guanay Cormorant

Halibut

Horse

Isurus oxyrinchus

Juan Fernández Crawfish

Killer Whale

Louisiana Shrimp Mother 

Carey’s Chicken New 

Zealand Sea Lion Noddy

Octopus

Otter

Paper Nautilus

Parrot

Pilot Fish

Quahog

Right Whale

Sea Cow

Sea Pickle

Sliver King

Teredo Shipworm Tropicbird

Tuna

Urchin

Velella and the Man-of-War

Walrus

Wandering Albatross Whale 

Shark

Xiphias gladius

Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake

Zooplankton