CONTENTS 



PREFACE 8 



Chapter I. — SOME iNATURAL LAWS 



Life and laws in the ocean 13 



Surroundings and colours 15 



Chapter II. — NORTHERN REGIONS 



Arctic seas 28 



The glacial adventures of the salmon 32 



The banks of Newfoundland and the north 38 



The abundant life of northern seas 47 



Chapter III. — TEMPERATE REGIONS 



A trawl haul on the Great Sole Bank h2 



Aboard the little craft 62 



Rivers and lakes of the northern continents 72 



Chapter IV. — TROPICAL REGIONS 



The open ocean 88 



Sharks, by Paul liadker 97 



The Sargasso Sea 101 



The epic story of tunny-lishes 102 



The coral fairyland 117 



From the Nile to the Congo 129 



Descending the Amazon 136 



The swamps of Asia 1 10 



Chapter V. — SOUTHERN REGIONS 



In the land of the coelacanth, 6// ./. Millot 146 



Under the Southern Cross 159 



Chapter VI. — THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN 



In a bathyscaph, bij Theodore Monod 172 



The cold night of the abyss 177 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 182 



List of coloured plates 184 



Index 185 



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