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Deep James Nestor

Deep By James Nestor

Deep by James Nestor


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Summary

Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea meets Born to Run and the cutting edge of popular science.

Deep Summary

Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor

From the author of the international Bestseller Breath Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen. Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose and ears, and sometimes they don't come up at all. The free divers were Nestor's way into an exhilarating and dangerous world of deep-sea pioneers, underwater athletes, scientists, spear fishermen, billionaires and ordinary men and women who are poised on the brink of some amazing discoveries about the ocean. Soon he was visiting the scientists who live 60ft underwater (and are permanently high on nitrous dioxide), swimming with the notorious man-eating sharks of Reunion and descending thousands of feet in a homemade submarine. And on the way down, he learnt about the amazing amphibious reflexes activated in the human body under deep-water conditions, why dolphins were injected with LSD in an attempt to teach them to talk, and why sharks like AC/DC. The sea covers seventy per cent of Earth's surface, and still contains answers to questions about the world we are only beginning to ask: Deep blends science and adventure to uncover its amazing secrets.

Deep Reviews

A fascinating, informative, exhilarating book. * Wall Street Journal *
Idiosyncratic and Illuminating... Deep demonstrates that a rich, life-filled, mysterious realm of vast possibility is contained in that blackness. It will certainly enrich the thinking of anyone planning to spend time at the beach. -- Horatio Clare * The Independent *
Deep is a heartfelt, eccentric and pleasantly eccentric guide to the planet's most mysterious region. It should encourage plenty of readers to take the plunge. * Sunday Business Post *
Engaging and eye-popping. * Esquire *

About James Nestor

James Nestor has written for publications including Outside Magazine, The New York Times, Men's Journal and San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. An inveterate adventurer, Nestor joined a doomed surfing expedition to Norway and Russia, in which he and his team became the first to ride the breaks of the Arctic Circle. He has travelled extensively in Central America and the South Pacific. He lives in San Francisco.

Additional information

GOR006598735
9781781250662
1781250669
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
20150507
272
N/A
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