Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea

"[An] amiable, in-depth examination of the most critical era for the development of modern oceanography" (Publishers Weekly).

In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities?in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected ...