Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's medal for coolness in a crisis goes to Ned Harris, owner of the Atlas Window Cleaning Contractors, who was plying his trade outside the 20th floor of Honolulu's Chateau Waikiki when the rope holding up his window chair broke...
...James Atlas...
...James Atlas...
Throughout, the Atlas scatters information like drops of sea spray, showing how waves are formed, how the oceans help make the world's weather, how pollution is gradually depleting valuable fisheries and destroying salt marshes where sea birds breed. Its last important section is a series on the world's major ocean areas, tracking origins of the warm Mediterranean Sea and the frigid Arctic Ocean, assaying values of flora, fauna and inanimate components of the marine world, outlining what must be done to preserve and protect them...
Educational rather than entertaining, the Atlas of the Oceans is a serious and sometimes terrifying book. But it makes its main point without polemics. Readers who spend more than a few minutes looking at this oversize atlas can feel the salt tides in their own blood and recognize the power-and fragility-of the final wilderness...