Description
An octopus expert and celebrated artist offer a deep dive to meet the enchanting inhabitants of the worlds marine ecosystems.
Have you ever walked along the beach and wondered what kind of creatures can be found beneath the waves? Have you pictured what it would be like to see the ocean not from the shore but from its depths? These questions drive Janet Voight, an expert on mollusks who has explored the seas in the submersible Alvin that can dive some 14,000 feet below the waters surface. In this book, she partners with artist Peggy Macnamara to invite readers to share her undersea journeys of discovery.
With accessible scientific descriptions, Voight introduces the animals that inhabit rocky and sandy shores, explains the fragility of coral reefs, and honors the extraordinary creatures that must search for food in the oceans depths, where light and heat are rare. These fascinating insights are accompanied by Macnamaras stunning watercolors, which illuminate these ecosystems and other scenes from Voights research. Together, they show connections between life at every depthand warn of the threats these beguiling places and their eccentric denizens face.
Author: Janet Voight
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 06/15/2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780226817668
Language: English
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