The Bathysphere Book : Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near Nonsuch Island, a curious steel ball is lowered 3,000 feet into the sea. Crumpled inside, the famed zoologist William Beebe gazes out of the thick quartz windows, watching luminous marine life and never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky darkness.

A deep dive into Beebe's eyewitness accounts of underwater exploration, The Bathysphere Book blends research and storytelling, uncovering a magical world where ghostly glowing organisms test the limits of human understanding.

'An exhilarating read and one of the best things I've read in years' Martin MacInnes

'A weird and often beautiful fusion of science writing, history and poetry' Guardian