The Bathysphere book : effects of the luminous ocean depths
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
551.46/FOX,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Astra House, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781662601903, 1662601905 :, 1662601905, 9781662601903
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First glimpse -- Spectral visions -- Sinking lower -- Upside down -- Blunderbuss -- Falling -- The deepest dives -- Underwriting -- Surfacing -- Summer -- Invisibilities -- Ink spills everywhere -- Silence and solitude -- Leaving the body behind -- Recent sightings
"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"--