Why Fish Don't Exist [electronic resource] : A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life
Miller, Lulu2024
eBook
'Holds up a mirror to a pioneering explorer of the deep seas' Financial Times'Full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries - and unusual scientists' New Scientist'One of the best things I've read in years' Martin MacInnes'Hypnotic . . . beautifully written' New York Times'A love letter to the ocean' Waterstones____________11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near Nonsuch Island, a curious steel ball is lowered 3,000 feet into the sea. Crumpled inside, the famed zoologist William Beebe gazes out of the thick quartz windows, watching luminous marine life and never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky darkness.A deep dive into Beebe's eyewitness accounts of underwater exploration, The Bathysphere Book blends research and storytelling, uncovering a magical world where ghostly glowing organisms test the limits of human understanding.
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[Place of publication not identified] : ONE, 2024
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9781805337607
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English
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3994158