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Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures

Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures

Giaimo, Cara
Stankovic, Vlad

Hardcover

HumorMarine LifeSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 1683695070
ISBN13: 9781683695073
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
Sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer affirmations for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment--drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world.

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.

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