Author: Yuliy Mikhailovich Shokalsky (Honored Professor of the Maritime Academy. Honorary Doctor: of Physical Geography of Novorossiysk University and Geography of Kazan University), year of publication - 1917. Publisher: Arctic Institution of the Partnership A.F. Marx., Petrograd. Pages - 615 pieces. Format - 245 x 180 x 44 mm. Hardcover, black and white edition. Available: cover restoration; poorly visible library stamp on the inside of the back cover.
! Has a memorial autograph of the author!
The book "Oceanography" became a fundamental work that brought together all the knowledge accumulated at that time about the World Ocean, and had a huge impact on the development of oceanography, was a great success, received worldwide recognition. The encyclopedia is dedicated to a comprehensive study of the World Ocean, in which the author first systematized observations and theoretically substantiated the causal relationship of phenomena, introducing the concept of a single World Ocean. The book covers issues of land and water distribution, sea level fluctuations, methods of mapping the bottom relief, studying soils and the chemical composition of water, as well as water movement, including tides, currents and wave theory.
