{"product_id":"9781911590873","title":"The Bathysphere Book : Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Fox, Brad \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/11\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781911590873,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exquisite and shocking... just as any exploration of the deep should be' Helen Scales, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Brilliant Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] rich, strange book' China Miéville, author of \u003ci\u003eThe City \u0026amp; the City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000 feet into the sea. Crumpled up inside, gazing through three-inch thick quartz windows, sits the famed zoologist William Beebe. With uncontrollable excitement, he watches as bizarre, never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky blackness, illuminated by explosions of bioluminescence. He is the first person to witness this alien world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeebe's dives take place against the backdrop of a transforming and paradoxical America, home to ground-breaking scientists, eccentric adventurers, and eugenicist billionaires. Yet under the ocean's crushing pressure, scientific expectations disintegrate; the colour spectrum shatters into new dimensions; outlandish organisms thrive where no one expected them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bathysphere Book\u003c\/i\u003e blends research, storytelling, and poetic experiments, traveling through entangled histories of scientific discovery into the bottomless magic of the deep unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFurther praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Bathysphere Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The life work of an explorer-scientist becomes a thing of rich poetry' Helen Gordon, author of \u003ci\u003eNotes from Deep Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A breathtaking book, full of suspense, revelation, and beauty' Sy Montgomery, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of an Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An exhilarating read... shiveringly exciting, important, and new' Martin MacInnes, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Ascension\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An impressionistic work of art depicting one of the greatest moments of discovery in human history... tantalizing glimpses of deep-sea life' Edith Widder, author of \u003ci\u003eBelow the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A genre-deying book about oceans that is imbued with intelligence, curiosity and wonder' Joanna Pocock, author of \u003ci\u003eSurrender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant work of literary art... a time-bending, gem-laden constellation' Wayne Koestenbaum, author of \u003ci\u003eUltramarine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53575803470197,"sku":"9781911590873","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781911590873.jpg?v=1727942181","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9781911590873","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}