From the reviews: "It is ... a joyful romp through the history of oceanography that will appeal to both those in the field and those curious about it-touching not just on oceanography, but Earth sciences in general. ... So my recommendation is: Go ahead, get to know Walter. You'll be glad you did." (Jerome A. Smith, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December, 2011)

• Foreword – Carl Wunsch.- Foreward – Paul Gaffney.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Waves and wave spectra.- Oceanographers learn about power spectra.- Wave prediction.- Where the swell begins.- Coming to America.- Coming to America.- Caltech.- Serving in the Army.- Clearance problems.- Bikini (1946) and Eniwetok (1951).- Settling down at Scripps.- Munk finally gets his degree.- Wind-driven ocean circulation.- From waves to tides 1958-1968.- 6 Deep sea tides 1964.- The alleged suicide of Aristotle.- 7 Internal waves 1971 – 1981.- Ocean Acoustics 1974 .- The Gulf Stream sheds eddies.- The Mode experiments.- Ocean Acoustic Tomography.- Heard Island.- Whales.- The last twenty years.- Mohole 1957 – 1964.- The wobbling earth 1950 – 1960.- IGPP. 1962.- The Cambridge connection.- Finding the faculty.- Building the Laboratory.- Navy.- Finis.- Appendix.

From the reviews: "It is ... a joyful romp through the history of oceanography that will appeal to both those in the field and those curious about it-touching not just on oceanography, but Earth sciences in general. ... So my recommendation is: Go ahead, get to know Walter. You'll be glad you did." (Jerome A. Smith, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December, 2011)

• Foreword – Carl Wunsch.- Foreward – Paul Gaffney.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Waves and wave spectra.- Oceanographers learn about power spectra.- Wave prediction.- Where the swell begins.- Coming to America.- Coming to America.- Caltech.- Serving in the Army.- Clearance problems.- Bikini (1946) and Eniwetok (1951).- Settling down at Scripps.- Munk finally gets his degree.- Wind-driven ocean circulation.- From waves to tides 1958-1968.- 6 Deep sea tides 1964.- The alleged suicide of Aristotle.- 7 Internal waves 1971 – 1981.- Ocean Acoustics 1974 .- The Gulf Stream sheds eddies.- The Mode experiments.- Ocean Acoustic Tomography.- Heard Island.- Whales.- The last twenty years.- Mohole 1957 – 1964.- The wobbling earth 1950 – 1960.- IGPP. 1962.- The Cambridge connection.- Finding the faculty.- Building the Laboratory.- Navy.- Finis.- Appendix.

From the reviews: "It is ... a joyful romp through the history of oceanography that will appeal to both those in the field and those curious about it-touching not just on oceanography, but Earth sciences in general. ... So my recommendation is: Go ahead, get to know Walter. You'll be glad you did." (Jerome A. Smith, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December, 2011)

• Foreword – Carl Wunsch.- Foreward – Paul Gaffney.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Waves and wave spectra.- Oceanographers learn about power spectra.- Wave prediction.- Where the swell begins.- Coming to America.- Coming to America.- Caltech.- Serving in the Army.- Clearance problems.- Bikini (1946) and Eniwetok (1951).- Settling down at Scripps.- Munk finally gets his degree.- Wind-driven ocean circulation.- From waves to tides 1958-1968.- 6 Deep sea tides 1964.- The alleged suicide of Aristotle.- 7 Internal waves 1971 – 1981.- Ocean Acoustics 1974 .- The Gulf Stream sheds eddies.- The Mode experiments.- Ocean Acoustic Tomography.- Heard Island.- Whales.- The last twenty years.- Mohole 1957 – 1964.- The wobbling earth 1950 – 1960.- IGPP. 1962.- The Cambridge connection.- Finding the faculty.- Building the Laboratory.- Navy.- Finis.- Appendix.