This August is Blue Mind Month at Common Seas - so we asked our team to share their favourite reads that help put things in perspecive, get the imagination firing and recconect with the big blue. We hope you'll find them useful too.

1. Blue Mind - Wallace J. Nichols

2. The Outlaw Ocean – Ian Urbina

3. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands - Judith Schalansky

4. The Deep - Alex Rogers

5. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

6. From What Is to What If - Rob Hopkins

7. Horizon - Barry Lopez

8. The World is Blue – Sylvia Earle

9. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain - Roger Deakin

10. The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson

Kids

11. The Snail and the Whale - Julia Donaldson

12. The Secret of Black Rock - Joe Todd-Stanton

13. Deep in the Ocean - Lucie Brunellière

14. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry