Ellis Richard Books
No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species
By Richard Ellis, Ellis Richard
"Just about every species that has ever lived on earth is extinct. The trilobites, which dominated the ocean floors for 300 million years, are gone. The last of the dinosaurs was wiped out by a Mou...
Read MoreThe Search for the Giant Squid
By Richard Ellis, Ellis Richard
The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threateni...
Read MoreImagining Atlantis
Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its ca...
Read MoreMonsters Of The Sea: The History, Natural History, and Mythology of the Oceans' Most Fantastic Creatures
By Richard Ellis, Ellis Richard
In Monsters of the Sea, Richard Ellis, one of the country's foremost authorities on ocean life, casts his net wide in search of the most unusual aquatic fauna, real and imagined - from mermaids and...
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