The Underworld
Journeys to the depths of the ocean
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ISBN
9781804950906
Bindwijze
Paperback
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Uitgeverij
Penguin Random House USA
Jaar van uitgifte
2024
Aantal pagina's
384
Waar gaat het over?
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets.
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'Masterful and mesmerizing . . . an irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose.' Sy Montgomery, author of Soul of an Octopus
'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington Post
'A fascinating history' Time
'Casey’s descriptions of the shimmeringly strange life teeming below the waves capture her wonder and ravishment in prose that morphs into poetry . . . Entralling' Boston Globe
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For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of fear and fascination, an unknowable realm that evokes a singular, compelling question: what’s down there? But now cutting-edge technologies are allowing scientists and explorers to discover this strange and exotic underworld: a place of soaring mountains, smouldering volcanoes and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high. A realm long thought to be devoid of life is, in fact, a vibrant new world, home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long, creatures that breathe iron and communicate through their skin, ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium.
In The Underworld, Susan Casey traverses the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet. She interviews the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers as they uncover this vast unseen realm. And she discovers the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the abyssal ocean and the quadrillions of creatures who live in its depths.
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