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 ...
This history of diving traces its evolution from fishing with spears to today's high-tech equipment. It includes accounts of some of the eccentric exploits of the pioneers.
"Reflections on a Summer Sea" is a wonderful evocation of a magical place caught in time - a funny and touching true story of a group of talented ecologists who, as a hobby, spent forty summers at their privately owned field laboratory in a beautiful corner of south-west Ireland. The sea laps on every page, for events take place beside and beneath ...
In a series of brilliantly detailed portraits, this history of the daring art of deep-sea diving recounts the eccentric exploits and sense-defying feats of the men who turned underwater adventure into a modern science. Illustrated throughout.
This is the beautifully told tale of Norton's growing love of the sea, from family holidays in Whitley Bay as a boy, to his first over zealous attempts at diving. All that we know and love of the British seaside weaves throughout this funny, nostalgic and richly told memoir. Fortune telling gypsies found on crumbling promenades, lighthouses ...
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Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
