Underwater to get out of the rain : a love affair with the sea
On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures under or near the water. Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans, and the eccentric characters who work, study, and live by the shore make his book a wonder-filled experience. An intrepid diver and distinguished scientist, Norton's writing is self-deprecating, very funny, and full of wry and intriguing anecdotes; he is an unfailingly delightful companion. Whether his setting is a bed of jewel anemones in an I
eBook, English, 2006
1st Da Capo Press ed View all formats and editions
Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006
Autobiography
1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations, map
9780306816499, 9780306814877, 0306816490, 0306814870
688506450
Credits; Acknowledgements; Preface; Seeing the Light; On the Bottom; Changes; The Sea of Surprises; Sentiment and Seaweed; Navel Manoeuvres; Bunnies and Badgers; Filtersville; Committed to Biology; The Song of the Dredge; All at Sea; Stars and Starfish in the Sky; Slitherers and Skeletons; Sea Meadows; Fishermen's Tales; The Turquoise Pool; Voyagers; One of the Crowd; Caribbean Nights; He Who Dares, Swims; Brace Yourself; Green; In the Zone; Go West Young Man; What's in a Name?; The Pleasure of Piers; Kelp and Selkies; Lost Ships; Home Deep Home; Just Visiting; Wet Behind the Years? Worlds Within WhorlsA Walk in the Park; A Little Night Music; Playing the Field; Alien Invasions; Pretending to be a Leaf; It 's a Small World; Only Skin Deep; Here Be Giants; Freewheeling; Moonstruck; Sardines and Scarlatti; Deserts and Dreams; Ghosts in the Marine; Darkness at Noon; The Shipwrecked Dentist; Piercing the Isthmus; Polyps and Politics; Dynamite and Cyanide; Memento Mari; Bibliography; About the Author