Excerpt from International Decade of Ocean Exploration: A Report by the National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, Executive Office of the President, May 1968 The oceans, as Longfellow observed, not only separate but also unite mankind. They are an important source of food and minerals for a rapidly developing world society. They control the weather on land as well as at sea. And for many centuries they have been pathways of transportation and trade, linking societies around the globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.