The ocean world
Subtitle: being a descriptive history of the sea and its living inhabitants
By: Chiefly translated from "La vie et les moeurs des animaux" / by Louis Figuier. Illustrated by four hundred and twenty-seven engravings, chiefly designed under the direction of m. Ch. Be valet, from specimens in the museums of Paris
Contributors: O., W. S., tr; W. S. O., tr
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Published: 1868
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 605
Subjects: Marine animals; Ocean
Notes: "Preface" signed: W.S.O.

In part compiled ... from the author's La terre et les mers ... but the larger portion of the work is a free translation of his ... La vie et les moeurs des animaux. Other chapters ... are compiled from various sources. cf. Pref.