Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss - Softcover

Ellis, Richard

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9781558216631: Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558216634 ISBN 13: 9781558216631

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 1998

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Reprint of a work originally published by Knopf in 1996. The author is a marine artist and writer whose work, though detailed and scientific, draws in non-scientists with an engaging writing style and with extraordinary black-and-white depictions of sea creatures (100 or so, half-page or smaller, are included here). Discussion includes the Atlantic Ocean and the history of deep sea exploration, and explanation of the biology and habits of numerous sea animals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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From the Back Cover:

Open this book and you'll plunge five miles below the surface of the sea into a realm inhabited by living creatures that strain the bounds of credibility. Richard Ellis recounts stories of exploration of the deep sea and brings us face-to-face with these unexpected efflorescences of evolution. (6 1/2 X 9 1/4, 416 pages, b&w photos, illustrations)

From the Inside Flap:

hor of Monsters of the Sea and The Book of Whales comes an exhilarating armchair expedition to the last frontier on earth--the bottom of the sea. Ellis first surveys the history of deep-sea exploration, then plunges into the Atlantic's great repository of strange and wondrous fauna, 102 drawings. 32 photos.

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