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 enlarge | Authors: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Wyland
Publisher: HCI
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 282827
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0757300596
Dewey Decimal Number: 508.3162
EAN: 9780757300592
ASIN: 0757300596
Publication Date: October 16, 2003
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soul finding November 14, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a warm and wonderful book filled with stories, poems and art that will fill your heart with gladness. I can relate to many of these stories as I am a diver and a snorkeler, but anyone with a love for the ocean or even just a love for nature and life will find this book a treasure. I am going to order 3 more copies to give to my daughters and a friend because I don't wish to part with my own copy.
A pleasant surprise November 8, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm not what you would call an "ocean lover" as the title of this book indicates, but my family and I used to visit the ocean on summer vacations in the gulf of Texas. I guess I had forgotten how wonderful those times were. But after reading Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul, it was like being there again, building sandcastles on the beach with my father and brother, sharing my dreams for the future with my mother and contemplating the vast sea in front of us. There are some terrific stories here, including some by well-known authors, and the Wyland paintings are beautiful, but it's the stories by people like me, everyday people, with such touching memories of the sea that make this book a dear gift, indeed.
Great book... October 28, 2003
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Also check out Captain Jon Explores the Ocean (also available from Amazon as well), a great tribute to the sea for the young and the young at heart.
A soulful sea October 15, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Most people know that anything can happen at sea. And in the newest book in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lovers Soul, just about anything that can happen in, around, above, and below the sea ... does happen. Co-authored by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, journalist Steve Creech and renowned marine life artist Wyland - who you might know from his gigantic sea life murals around the world - Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul takes readers on an astonishing journey across our blue planet, with over 70 unforgettable, true-life stories, and breathtaking color inserts of Wyland art.
The book culls its stories from as far away as the South Pacific to the Fjords of Norway, and includes pieces by Clive Cussler, Jack Hanna, Robert Ballard, the discoverer of the Titanic, and more. In Geriatric Suicide, for example, sixty-five-year-old filmmaker Warren Miller tests the limits of what it means to be a "senior citizen" as he fights heavy seas and wind in a break-neck windsurfing expedition from Maui to Molokai. Author John Cacciutti accomplishes the unthinkable in his story, Sailsmanship, when he loses his fishing rod to a nine-foot sailfish, then leaps into the waters off Acapulco - at risk of being speared himself - lands the fish ... then releases it.
The stories go on: the MIT student who creates a one-of-a-kind bicycle ... then pedals it across the Atlantic Ocean; a strange discovery aboard the Jacques Cousteau exploration ship Calpyso; and a midnight encounter with giant Humboldt squid that will make any diver think twice about testing these curious animals. But there's a deeper meaning to all of this, too - and that's what this book does best. Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul captures relationships, family stories, tales of the high sea, and insights into the wonderful aquatic life that shares our planet for a truly fascinating, highly entertaining reading experience.
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