When I first saw the mini-sized cover of this on the Kindle UK Daily Deal page, with the subtitle too small to read, I thought it was going to be a mythology book about the Underworld. Which would have been interesting to me, so I clicked on it, but it turns out that it's a book about a very different type of "underworld" - the deep ocean. Which is also interesting to me. And it has some good reviews/bestseller status from the
NY Times,
Boston Globe, and
Time Magazine. So here you go...
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNGHLJBH
Kobo UK:
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-underworld-21
Spoiler:
Quote:
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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