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Vive la naturaleza. El mar

Vive la naturaleza. El mar

Desbenoit, Stéphanie

Librooks Barcelona S.L.L.

Vive la naturaleza: El mar es un libro ilustrado que invita a los jóvenes lectores a descubrir la riqueza natural de mares y océanos a través de información clara, dibujos atractivos y actividades prácticas. Un recorrido por el Mediterráneo, el Atlántico y el mar del Norte que muestra ecosistemas, fauna, flora, curiosidades científicas y formas ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.18,90 €

El canto de las ballenas

El canto de las ballenas

Nicola Davies

NubeOcho

El canto de las ballenas jorobadas fascina a la humanidad. Es un sonido hipnótico y hermoso, parece música de otro planeta. Los científicos aún no han logrado descifrar su significado, es uno de los grandes enigmas del mundo natural.
Las canciones están compuestas por rugidos, chasquidos, silbidos y pulsos. Todos los machos de la misma ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.17,90 €

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

Bantam Press

The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over 1 billion in gold and silver and one man's obsessive quest to find it from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Splendid . . . Sancton is an expert ...

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pvp.25,57 €

Amy Foster

Amy Foster

Conrad, Joseph

Periférica

Yanko Gooral, un campesino de los Cárpatos, es arrastrado hasta la costa inglesa después de que zozobre el barco de emigrantes en el que viajaba rumbo a América, donde, engañado por una red ilegal de emigración, aspiraba a labrarse un próspero porvenir. Tras el hambre, el frío, el estupor y la desesperación que sufre durante ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.12,00 €

Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep

Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep

Scales, Helen

Reaktion Books

From a leading writer of the sea, an exquisitely illustrated deep dive into the beauty and meaning of art inspired by the life of the watery depths.

Artists have captured the marvels of ocean life throughout history. From fine art to scientific illustrations, these portrayals help us to appreciate and interpret the diversity of shapes, ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.25,00 €

In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

Towns, Lydia

Reaktion Books

Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration.

What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyages not as radical departures, but as chapters in a much older story of Atlantic navigation and commerce. Beginning with Celtic and ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.29,00 €

How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History

How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

Reaktion Books

A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others. Wall Street Journal

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.26,00 €

Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories (Animalibus)

Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories (Animalibus)

Kaori, Nagai

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

This volume explores nonhuman animals' involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail-as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement.

Far from treating the ship as a confined space defined by the sea, Maritime Animals considers the ship's connections ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.30,00 €

Why Whales Sing

Why Whales Sing

Mercado, Eduardo

Johns Hopkins University Press

Reconceives whale songs as a sophisticated sonar system, revealing incredible insights into these creatures' intelligence and behavior.

With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing continuously for ten hours or more, changing the unique songs they sing every year. In Why ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.28,00 €

On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory.

On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory.

VVAA

State University of New York Press

Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ship's dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory.

In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook a dramatic voyage with over nine hundred Jewish refugees that caught the world's attention and has been ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.28,00 €

Conventional Maritime Deterrence: The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea

Conventional Maritime Deterrence: The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea

Lockyer, Adam

Georgetown University Press

A future clash between the United States and China would occur across the seas, islands, and peninsulas of the Indo-Pacific region. Thus, mastering maritime deterrence-creating and displaying naval power to discourage an attack-is vital for peace.

Conventional Maritime Deterrence revives and updates our understanding of how deterrence at sea differs from its terrestrial counterpart. Adam ...

[Sin existencias. Plazo de entrega breve]

pvp.44,00 €