Deep, 9781781250662
Paperback
Extreme sport, deep secrets: discover the ocean’s breathtaking and dangerous depths.

Deep

freediving, renegade science and what the ocean tells us about ourselves

$36.69

  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    26 May 2015

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Summary

Deep: Adventures in the Abyss

Covering a diving championship in Greece for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He stumbled upon one of the most extreme sports: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died. Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding, and sometimes they don’t come up at all.

The free divers w…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781781250662
ISBN-10:1781250669
Author:James Nestor
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:Profile Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Edition:Main
Release Date:26 May 2015
Weight:249g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 22mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A fascinating, informative, exhilarating book. * Wall Street Journal *Idiosyncratic and Illuminating… Deep demonstrates that a rich, life-filled, mysterious realm of vast possibility is contained in that blackness. It will certainly enrich the thinking of anyone planning to spend time at the beach. – Horatio Clare * The Independent *Deep is a heartfelt, eccentric and pleasantly eccentric guide to the planet’s most mysterious region. It should encourage plenty of readers to take the plunge. * Sunday Business Post *Engaging and eye-popping. * Esquire *

About The Author

James Nestor

James Nestor has written for publications including Outside Magazine, The New York Times, Men’s Journal and San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. An inveterate adventurer, Nestor joined a doomed surfing expedition to Norway and Russia, in which he and his team became the first to ride the breaks of the Arctic Circle. He has travelled extensively in Central America and the South Pacific. He lives in San Francisco.

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