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A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of... read more

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First Sentence

THREE hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, when the primordial fireball had cooled to a mere 5,000 degrees or so, electrons fell into orbit around protons.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Robert Kunzig (Author)

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  1. biology
  2. history
  3. marine
  4. nonfiction
  5. oceanography
  6. science 
 

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