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Specifically discussing the Pacific Ocean, provides basic information about the sea, including wave formation, currents, tides, marine biology, and the landscape of the ocean floor.

Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.

Experienced traveler Robie, having decided to take a cargo plane from Honolulu to Midway Atoll after a visit with her aunt, struggles to survive with the co-pilot, Max, after the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean and they are left on a raft in shark-infested waters with only one bag of Skittles.

Discusses the life of Vasco N??ez de Balboa, with an emphasis on his explorations and his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama.

An overview of the Pacific Ocean that describes its physical characteristics, animal and plant life, historical explorers, and dangers such as tsunamis and typhoons.

Chronicles how the explorers of the Pacific contributed tothe understanding of the region's geography and people, covering Magellan, James Cook, Balboa, Mendana, and others, and includes information on early Pacific navigation, the art of Pacific peoples, and the real Robinson Crusoe.

This journey by raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands was made to test the author's theories of the origin of the Polynesian people and travel by raft between these places by means of riding the ocean currents and winds.

Surveys the physical features, plant and animal life, human population, commerce, natural resources, and environmental concerns of the world's largest ocean.

In text and photographs, presents some of what is known about the Pacific Ocean, its islands, its people, and its exotic creatures.

On a pleasure cruise in the Pacific, seventeen-year-old Susannah, her parents, seventeen-year-old cousin Martin, and eighteen-year-old crew member Axel face off against seventeen-year-old Jeremy, a drug lord's son, and hired killers Elwood and fifteen-year-old Shako.

Examines the life and journeys of Captain Cook.

Janna Cawrse describes her experiences after she quit her job, got married to her long-time, on-and-off again boyfriend, and set off with him on a two-year, 17,000 mile voyage across the Pacific, during which they shared many dangers and adventures, and learned what it means to be a couple.

Provides information about the life and accomplishments of eighteenth-century English explorer James Cook, discussing his contributions to geography, his work to improve the treatment of sailors, and his discovery of lands for Britain.

When an international corporation develops a power facility at the bottom of the ocean, they employ a bioengineered crew to man it, but it soon becomes apparent that although the crew can withstand the underwater environment, it makes them crazy, and the crew is capable of causing a deadly disaster.

Tells the story of the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, beginning in 1510 when he snuck on board a ship bound for Central America, through his discovery, for Spain, of the South Sea, now known as the Pacific Ocean.