Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss

by Richard Ellis

Reprint of a work originally published by Knopf in 1996. The author is a marine artist and writer whose work, though detailed and scientific, draws in non-scientists with an engaging writing style and with extraordinary black-and-white depictions of sea creatures (100 or so, half-page or smaller, are included here). Discussion includes the Atlantic Ocean and the history of deep sea exploration, and explanation of the biology and habits of numerous sea animals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Richard Ellis is a celebrated authority on marine biology and America’s foremost marine life artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide. His nine books include The Search for the Giant Squid (a Publishers Weekly 1998 Best Book of the Year), Great White Shark, Encyclopedia of the Sea, Men and Whales, Monsters of the Sea, Deep Atlantic The Book of Whales, and Imagining Atlantis.

Reviews

[Peggy]

Ellis's fascinating history of the Atlantic sea floor is enhanced immeasurably by his fantastic and creepy white-on-black illustrations of the phantasmagorical denizens of the deep.

[Genarti aka Elizabeth]

Honestly I finished this ages ago and forgot to mark it off, so my memory has faded some, but it's really great! Somewhat dated, as I recall, just because it was written several years ago, but very engagingly written.