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The film Paddle to the Sea, based on this book but omitting many details, was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1966, directed by Bill Mason. It was nominated for an Oscar. [2] A water park based on the book was opened in 2016 in the town of Nipigon, where the fictional journey begins. [3]
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The Coral Island Title page, illustrated 1893 edition of The Coral Island Author R. M. Ballantyne Language English Genre Adventure novel Publisher T. Nelson & Sons Publication date 1857 Media type Print (Hardback & paperback) Text The Coral Island at Wikisource The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean is an 1857 novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of ...
The children's writer Elinor Lyon, in an autobiographical introduction to a reprint of the first book in her series about a pair of adventurous young siblings on the west coast of Scotland, remembers feeling a "dislike of the characters in Swallows and Amazons who are so good at things like sailing. I thought I'd have children who got things ...
The second section, The Gull's Way, follows a mackerel named Scomber, and the third section, River and Sea follows Anguilla, an eel. [8] The narrative follows these creature's migration habits over the span of a year. [11] Viewing ocean life from a broader ecological perspective was crucial to Carson, rather than just isolating parts of the sea.
The Childcraft series was originally created in 1934 by W. F. Quarrie & Company, then publishers of the World Book encyclopedia. The series' title was Childcraft – The How and Why Library. Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning fun.
The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings.
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.