The Bathysphere Book (eBook)

Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

Brad Fox (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
384 Seiten
ONE (Verlag)
978-1-911590-86-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A luminous and original account of the Bathysphere expeditions: the first ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly terrain more than 3000ft below sea level 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.

Autor

Brad Fox is a writer, journalist, translator and former relief contractor living in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily and Guernica, among other publications. His novel To Remain Nameless was a finalist for the Big Other Fiction award and a staff pick at the Paris Review. Fox is a certified scuba diver and has been cave diving in central Budapest, wreck diving in Bermuda, and dived a decommissioned oil platform off the coast of Peru.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Albert and the Whale • bathysphere • Below the Edge of Darkness • Bermuda Archipelago • Beyond Measure • Blue Planet • Bruce Chatwain • Caribbean Sea • China Mieville • contemporary nature writing • Deep • deep sea exploration • Deep Sea Voyage • Edith Widder • entangled life • helen scales • history of submarines • history of the exploration • history of the ocean • James Nestor • James Vincent • Marine Discoveries • Matthew Green • Merlin Sheldrake • Mysteries of the Natural World • narrative non-fiction • Natural History • Neim Gaiman • Nina Mingya Powles • ocean discovery • ocean exploration • Ocean survival • ocean travel writing • Patrick Svensson • Peter Riley • Philip Hoare • Rachel Carson • Sam Knight • Sandeep Jaujar • science writing • Scientific Adventurer • Sea Life • Shadowlands • strandings • submarine exploration • Sy Montgomery • Tabitha Lasley • The Brilliant Abyss • The Eternal Darkness • The Gospel of Eels • The Mushroom at the End of the World • Theodore Roosevelt • The Premonitions Burea • The Soul of an Octopus • The Vast Unknown • Will Eaves • William Beebe
• ISBN-10: 1-911590-86-3 / 1911590863
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911590-86-6 / 9781911590866