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Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation's Science + Literature Award
A Washington Post top 10 best book of 2023
A Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of 2023
Hypnotic . . . Beautifully written and beautifully made. —W. M. Akers, The New York Times Book Review
one of the most beautiful books-as-objects of the year —The Globe and Mail
...one of the most fascinating and unusual new books I’ve read in some time. —Benjamin Shull, The Wall Street Journal ...a weird and often beautiful fusion of science writing, history and poetry that explores our own relationship with the unknown... —Edward Posnett, The Guardian
Mesmerizing . . . Original and often profound, [The Bathysphere Book] is a moving testament to the wonders of exploration. —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Imbued with the adventurous spirit of science and exploration . . . [The Bathysphere Book is] an enchanting cabinet of curiosities. —Kirkus Reviews
A wide ranging, philosophical, and sensual account of early deep sea exploration and its afterlives, The Bathysphere Book begins with the first ever voyage to the deep ocean in 1930 and expands to explore the adventures and entanglements of its all-too-human participants at a time when the world still felt entirely new.
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