Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures
Language: English
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2025
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If you sometimes wish to simply sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news the strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with open arms (and fins, claws, and tentacles). But if you re not quite ready to take to the sea, they ve also got some solid advice for those cursed to live on solid ground. In Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake, Earth's weirdest sea creatures offer their favorite tips for improving your life on land. Get to know these friendly denizens of the deep: The star tunicate, who avoids anxiety by digesting its own brain The gloomy octopus, who asserts its boundaries by throwing dirt at anyone who bothers it The fire-breathing shrimp, who gets its feelings out by vomiting bioluminescent goo The deep-sea anglerfish, who expresses love by fusing with its mate And more wonderfully wacky undersea weirdos who really know how to live! Beautifully illustrated with charming watercolor portraits of the ocean s most eccentric creatures, Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake will help you bring a freewheeling, relaxed, self-actualized ocean spirit to even the driest life.…
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- Title
- Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures
- Author
- Cara Giaimo
- Publisher
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1683695070
- ISBN 13
- 9781683695073
- Illustrator
- Stankovic, Vlad
Feeling stressed, stuck, or simply tired of life on land? Take some advice from creatures who never left the ocean in the first place.
If you sometimes wish you could sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news: The strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with open arms (and fins, claws, and tentacles). But if you're not quite ready to take to the sea, these friendly denizens of the deep offer solid, often hilarious advice for living on dry land. Learn about a gloomy octopus that enforces its boundaries by throwing debris at unwelcome neighbors, a star tunicate that digests much of its own body, an anglerfish that takes romantic attachment to extraordinary extremes, and dozens other wonderfully weird inhabitants of the deep.
Beautifully illustrated with striking watercolor portraits of the ocean's most eccentric creatures, Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake is a charming blend of nature, science, humor, and unconventional life advice made for ocean lovers, science nerds, stressed-out humans, and anyone who suspects the sea creatures may have figured out life better than we have. It will make you long to return to the seas – but it will also help you bring a freewheeling, relaxed, self-actualized ocean spirit to even the driest life.
- Meet 60 undersea oddballs: blobfish, anglerfish, mantis shrimp, immortal jellyfish, octopuses, bizarre deep-sea animals, and dozens of other creatures
- Discover strange-but-true animal facts from the sunlight zone all the way down to the abyss
- Find funny life advice about confidence, boundaries, resilience, relationships, self-acceptance, and more inspired by how ocean creatures actually live
- Full-color watercolor portraits capture the wonderfully strange personalities of 60 marine animals
- A funny, informative gift for marine-life fans, science nerds, weird-nature enthusiasts, and anyone who needs some unconventional encouragement
Dive in, meet 60 of the ocean's weirdest residents, and discover what their bizarre lives might teach you about surviving your own.
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About the Author
Vlad Stankovic is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Sydney, Australia.
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