The Underworld

Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

by Susan Casey

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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'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington Post A fascinating history' Time 'Entralling' Boston Globe
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.

NON FICTION

GENERAL SCIENCE

SCIENCE & NATURE

AUCK IN STOCK

WGTN OUT OF STOCK

Pages:

384

Published:

Nov 2024

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Imprint

Hutchinson

ISBN:

9781804950906

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.
______________________________________________

'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington Post
A fascinating history' Time

'Entralling' Boston Globe
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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