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Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks ...
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Eric Scigliano

Collins, 2009

Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. Though he has degrees in engineering and oceanography, he's never held a traditional academic post, choosing instead to consult, for everyone from the oil companies to Seattle sewage treatment facilities to the Navy, and then, along the way, he's followed his interests, researching many different aspects of ocean currents. In May 1990 a Korean freighter was wracked by a storm and spilled its cargo - ...

Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans

3 reviews
Eric Scigliano

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Elephants, but Mostly Humans and Elephants
Elephants are special. I bet you know someone who collects elephant sculptures and pictures. (If not, perhaps you know a Republican.) Elephants are the number one attraction in the circus, something that circus managers realize very well. Pandas might be a bigger draw at zoos, but they are really hard to get, while there are plenty of zoo elephants. Many people worship Ganesha the elephant ...

Puget Sound: Sea Between the Mountains

Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2000

Placid bays, steeply forested shorelines, breaching whales, dynamic urban centers -- Western Washington's Puget Sound region captivates with its magic.

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

3 reviews
Eric Scigliano

Free Press, 2005

Genre-crossing, discipline-crossing masterpiece
All of the people who think "Michelangelo" when they think of the Renaissance should read this work by a "Renaissance man" himself, Eric Scigliano, environmental journalist, humorist, art aficianado, and regular contributor to Harper's, Discover, and other magazines. I read his last book, "Love, War, and Circuses," which brought the world and land of the Asian elephant so alive I felt as if I ...

Seeing the Elephant: The Ties That Bind Elephants and Humans
Eric Scigliano

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Seattle from the Air (Bird's Eye View)
Eric Scigliano, Heinl Russ

Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2002

Find your neighborhood or your school, perhaps a favorite park, when you look down through the camera of the groundbreaking aerial photographer Russ Heinl. "Seattle From the Air" captivates the reader with the wildlife of Puget Sound, the delights of the Pike Place Market, and the zany architecture of the Experience Music Project. The charm and character of Seattle take on new dimensions with this sky-high perspective. Historical and current ...