Full Fathom 5000 :The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea

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Author: Graham Bell
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Graham Bell

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Full Fathom 5000 :The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea

Graham Bell(Author)

3.33 (3 Ratings by Goodreads)

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Published: 8 July, 2022

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The deep sea covers more than half the surface of the Earth, but until the circumnavigation made by the HMS Challenger almost nothing was known about the animals that live there. Full Fathom 5000 gives an account of the remarkable discoveries that were made during the voyage and describes the strange and bizarre creatures that live in perpetual darkness a kilometer or more below the surface of the sea. Until the early 1870s, very little was known about the creatures lurking in the depths of our oceans. People had found a few things trapped in fishing gear or caught on the anchors of ships, but those who tried to venture to the bottom of the seafloor often died before they made it there. The first systematic investigation into life in our oceans was made during the circumnavigation of the HMS Challenger. Scientists credit this voyage as the beginning of modern oceanography, and the story of it is full of twists and turns. It led to the discovery of a whole new fauna previously unknown, which Full Fathom 5000 describes for the first time in one place for readers. In this book, Graham Bell takes readers through the voyage station by station, following the progress of the expedition and introducing some of the new and strange animals that were hauled up from the depths of the ocean and seen by human eyes for the first time. You will meet, among others, the ugliest fish in the world, flesh-eating clams, dwarf males, sea devils, and an octopus that wears lipstick. The book begins with a description of the first attempts scientists made to explore the deep sea, leading up to the plan for a voyage around the world on the HMS Challenger. The chapters take readers from station to station, though all of the world's oceans, visiting every continent and crossing the Equator five times. Bell details what was discovered during hundreds of stops to take samples, and he describes around a hundred stations where remarkable animals were hauled from the sea. The book ends with a description of what came after the end of this journey, explaining what they did with the animals that were collected and what became of the scientists and sailors who planned the voyage and traveled together around the world.

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Type	Book
ISBN13	9780197541579
ISBN10	0197541577
Number Of Pages	392
Item Weight	680 g
Product Dimensions	231 x 152 x 31 mm
Publisher / Reseller	Oxford University Press Inc
Format	hardback

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Bell's book is eminently readable, from start to finish, and cleverly mixes the scientific detail of the discoveries with personal anecdotes from the ship's log and crew journals, and puts them into the historical perspective of what was (still is) a formative period of international exploration, empire, and scientific advancement. * Richard Jones, Royal Entomological Society *
Graham Bell has written a tale which successfully intertwines the scientific and the human...It is a book to be enjoyed if you have a taste for extreme human endeavours, like a 19th Century equivalent to the sort of ideas and ideals that propelled the US space programme to the moon. Highly recommended. * Stephen Kenneth Donovan, Geology Today *

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Author's Bio

Graham Bell, FRS, is James McGill Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University. As an evolutionary biologist, his research interests focus on revealing the mechanism of natural selection, explaining the main features of life cycles, and investigating the maintenance of biodiversity. He helped to found in the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, and he served as its first President from 2005 to 2007. His work has been recognized by his election to Fellowship in RSC (1994), Honorary Fellowship of St. Peter's College at Oxford (2003), and Fellow of the Royal Society (2016). Bell served as Director of the Redpath Museum from 1995 to 2005 and Chair of the Biology Department at McGill University from 2011 to 2016. He was President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2013 to 2015. His most recent book is The Evolution of Life (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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Full Fathom 5000 :The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea

Graham Bell

3.33 ( 3 Ratings by Goodreads)