THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn aweinspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets.Masterful and mesmerizing . . . an irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heartstopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose. Sy Montgomery, author of Soul of an Octopus Fantastical and forbidding Washington Post A fascinating history TimeCaseys descriptions of the shimmeringly strange life teeming below the waves capture her wonder and ravishment in prose that morphs into poetry . . . Entralling Boston GlobeFor all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of fear and fascination, an unknowable realm that evokes a singular, compelling question whats down there? But now cuttingedge technologies are allowing scientists and explorers to discover this strange and exotic underworld a place of soaring mountains, smouldering volcanoes and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high. A realm long thought to be devoid of life is, in fact, a vibrant new world, home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long, creatures that breathe iron and communicate through their skin, ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium.In The Underworld, Susan Casey traverses the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet. She interviews the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers as they uncover...

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