Oceans and seas have long attracted human settlement because they offer a rich food source and access to faraway places for trade. This beautiful book features examples of the everyday lives of people who live on and by oceans and seas, such as the Moken people who live in houseboats in a group of islands near Myanmar.

Includes index.

Human habitats --Habitats by oceans -- Life on the Andaman Sea -- Life in the Pacific Ocean -- Life on the Alaskan coast -- Life on an oil rig.