Aquagenesis - Richard Ellis - The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea

Aquagenesis - Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis is one of America's leading marine conservationists, and is generally recognized as the foremost painter of marine natural history subjects in the world. In demand as a painter, installation artist and curator by museums around the world, in 2005, in conjunction with the publication in Italian of his Encyclopedia of the Sea, Richard Ellis was given a one-man show of his

drawings at the Museo del Mare in Genoa.

His successful The Book of Whales was followed by Dolphins and Porpoises, the second volume of his comprehen­sive work on the cetaceans of the world, published to universal critical acclaim in 1982. Book of Sharks, now in its seventh printing, and called the most popular book on sharks ever written was complemented by Great White Shark, co-authored by John McCosker, (Stanford University Press), and Men and Whales, published by Knopf. In 1993, he wrote and illustrated Physty, his first children's book, the true story of the suc­cessful rescue of a baby sperm whale. Monsters of the Sea was published in the fall of 1994, and Deep Atlantic appeared in 1996. Imagining Atlantis was published in July, 1998, with front page reviews in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times book reviews, and The Search for the Giant Squid appeared in October, 1998. His Encyclopedia of the Sea was published by Knopf in October, 2000, and in 2001, Viking published Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea. In March, 2003, Island Press published... LINK