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

Ellis, Richard

 
9780709060260: Deep Atlantic: Life, Death and Exploration in the Abyss

Synopsis

This is a definitive account of deep sea exp loration, by a celebrated marine artist and author. It first surveys the history of deep sea exploration, then plunges i nto the Atlantic''s great repository of strange and wondrous fauna. '

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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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