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National Geographic : 1966 Aug
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You are invited to explore THE SEA for 10 days as a guest of the JI Nature Library Since time immemorial, the sea has woven a spell over man. Yet until recently it has been almost a total mystery. Only in the last two decades have we begun unlocking the sea's secrets with electronic sounding, listening, and recording devices... ad vanced diving and breathing equipment... depend able under-water cameras and lights...powerful drills that pierce the very crust of the earth, miles below sea level. Now, from this rapidly accumulating treasury of scientific knowledge LIFE brings you THE SEA, as your introduction to the LIFE Nature Library. Brilliant lifelike pictures and text To bring you this book, LIFE mobilized skilled teams of writers, photographers, artists and re searchers. They have produced a virtual encyclo pedia of the sea. It is so accurate and clearly written, it has been adopted for use in thousands of class rooms from grade school to college. Through its 192 glittering photographs, paint ings, maps, drawings, and charts, and 35,000 words of text, you join in great scientific adventures of our time. You board the bathyscaph Trieste and plunge into the blackness of the deepest-known trench, seven miles below sea level. You join in mapping the longest known mountain-range in the world 40,000 miles, and entirely under water. You catch a giant fish thought to be extinct for 50 million years. You take part in an exciting hunt for clues to the origins of life itself-in the sediment that blan kets the ocean bottom. (In some places it is 21/V miles thick and may have lain undisturbed for bil lions of years.) Yours for a FREE 10-day examination Obviously so vast and exciting a book cannot be adequately described here. So we invite you to borrow a copy from us for 10 days. Then if you wish you may return it and owe nothing. Or you may own it for much less than such an expensively printed and handsomely bound book would ordi narily cost. Thanks to TIME-LIFE'S vast facilities and large print orders, you pay only $3.95 (plus shipping and handling). Then you will be entitled to receive another volume of the LIFE Nature Library for free examination every 2 months. But you make no commitments, promise to buy nothing. And you may cancel this arrangement any time you wish. To examine the first volume, simply fill out and mail coupon below. ---- ----- ----- --- I TIME-LIFE BOOKS, Dept. 3902 TIME & LIFE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. 60611 Please enroll me as a subscriber to the LIFE Nature Li brary and send me Volume I (THE SEA) for a 10-day Trial Examination. If, at the end of that time, I decide not to continue the series, I will return the book, canceling my subscription. If I keep the book, I will pay $3.95 (plus shipping and handling). I understand that future volumes will be issued on approval at two-month intervals, at the same price of $3.95. The 10-day Free Examination privi lege applies to all volumes in the Library, and I may cancel my subscription at any time. Name Address City State (Please include Zone or Zip Code No., if known) Schools and Libraries: Address orders to Silver Burdett, Co., Morristown, N. J. L-------------------------------
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