The Bathysphere book : effects of the luminous ocean depths
Fox, Brad (Bradley)2023
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Click and Collect for The Bathysphere book : effects of the luminous ocean depths11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000ft into the sea. Crumpled up inside, gazing through the three-inch thick quartz windows, sits the famed zoologist William Beebe. With uncontrollable excitement, he watches as bizarre, never-before-seen creatures drift out of the inky blackness, illuminated by explosions of bioluminescence, bathing in the strange blue light of the deep sea - the bluest blue he has ever experienced. Beebe's dives took place against the backdrop of a transforming and paradoxical America, home of ground-breaking scientists, outmoded adventurers and eugenicist billionaires. Yet under the ocean's crushing pressure, narratives of scientific discovery and exploration slowly disintegrate; the colour spectrum shatters into new dimensions; organisms thrive in defiance of conventional understanding. The Bathysphere Book blurs the line between research and poetry to travel deep into the mind of William Beebe and his colleagues - and from this, towards the very edges of scientific discovery.
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Author:
Fox, Brad (Bradley), author
Imprint:
London : One, an imprint of Pushkin Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
First glimpseSpectral visionsSinking lowerUpside downBlunderbussFallingThe deepest divesUnderwritingSurfacingSummerInvisibilitiesInk spills everywhereSilence and solitudeLeaving the body behindRecent sightings.
ISBN:
9781911590859 (hbk)9781911590859
Dewey class:
551.4609551.46
Language:
English
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BRN:
559792
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 551.46 BEE | Available |
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