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Welcome to the WBEZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich with part two of a

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list of books you must read if
you absolutely love the Ocean. Credit to

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the website Awesome ocean dot com.
The list continues with The Silent World by

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French explorer Jacques Cousteau, best known
as the inventor of scuba diving. An

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incredible memoir The Silent World, an
ode to the extreme sport of free diving.

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A book called Deep by James Nestor, speaking of Deep about twenty thousand

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leagues under the sea. A classic
by Jules Verne, writing about Captain Nemo

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and a submarine well before they became
popular. A book about the Great Barrier

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Reef called The Reef by Lane Mcalman. Tripped to the beginning of evolution where

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life began in the ocean, with
Aquagenesis by Richard Ellis, and The Secret

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Life of Lobsters by Trevor Courson,
action taking place in the Gulf of Maine.

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For dessert, one more big classic
Herman Melville's Moby Dick. And that's

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the Book Club. WBEZ, Boston's
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