11 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.
Beebe'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.
The Bathysphere Book blends research,storytelling,and poetic experiments,traveling through entangled histories of scientific discovery into the bottomless magic of the deep unknown.
Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781911590859Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
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'(A) rich,strange book'- China Mieville
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'An exhilarating read... shiveringly exciting,important,and new'- Martin MacInnes
'The life work of an explorer-scientist becomes a thing of rich poetry'- Helen Gordon
'An impressionistic work of art depicting one of the greatest moments of discovery in human history... tantalizing glimpses of deep-sea life'- Edith Widder
'A genre-deying book about oceans that is imbued with intelligence,curiosity and wonder'- Joanna Pocock
'A brilliant work of literary art... a time-bending,gem-laden constellation'- Wayne Koestenbaum
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