📚 Oceanography

The sea as a system: currents, chemistry, deep trenches, and the living water that covers most of the planet and drives its weather.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject oceanography in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Sea Around Us	Rachel Carson	1950	43
	Oceanography and marine biology	R. N. Gibson	1997	37
	The silent world	Jacques Yves Cousteau	1953	31
	Oceanography and marine biology	Robin Gibson	1970	26
	Oceanography and Marine Biology	S. J. Hawkins	2017	26
	Oceanography and marine biology	Margaret Barnes	1982	23
	Descriptive physical oceanography	George L. Pickard	1963	19
	Essentials of oceanography	Alan P. Trujillo	2008	17
	Nerdy Babies	Emmy Kastner	2019	16
	Introductory oceanography	Harold V. Thurman	1975	12
	Oceanography	Tom S. Garrison	1993	12
	Invitation to oceanography	Paul R. Pinet	1996	12
	Oceanography and Marine Biology	Hughes, D. J.	2014	12
	Hydrographic data from the OPTOMA Program	Paul A. Wittmann	1985	11
	The sea	Engel, Leonard	1961	10
	Oceanography	M. Grant Gross	1967	10
	Dolphins and Sharks	Mary Pope Osborne	2002	10
	Theory and applications of ocean surface waves	Chiang C. Mei	2005	10
	Waves and beaches	Willard Bascom	1964	8
	An introduction to marine science	P. S. Meadows	1978	8
	Estuaries	David Prandle	2009	8
	Indian Ocean	Louise Spilsbury	2015	8
	The oceans	H. U. Sverdrup	1942	7
	Essentials of oceanography	Harold V. Thurman	1983	7
	Sea change	Sylvia A. Earle	1995	7
	Data analysis methods in physical oceanography	William J. Emery	1998	7
	Practical handbook of marine science	Michael J. Kennish	2000	7
	Governance of Seas and Oceans	Patrick Prouzet	2014	7
	Blue Machine	Helen Czerski	2023	7
	Frontiers of the sea	Robert C. Cowen	1960	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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