Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat, torpedoed the Union blockade ship USS Housatonic, a feat that would not be repeated for another 50 years. On a dark night in February of 1864, the H.L. These are the ultimate keys to the ocean’s salvation-and thus to our future on this planet. Widder shows us how when we push our boundaries and expand our worlds, discovery and wonder follow. A thrilling adventure story as well as a scientific revelation, Below the Edge of Darkness reckons with the complicated and sometimes dangerous realities of exploration. Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosystem. In the process, she reveals hidden worlds and a dazzling menagerie of behaviors and animals, from microbes to leviathans, many never before seen or, like the legendary giant squid, never before filmed in their deep-sea lairs. She only wanted to know one thing: Why was there so much light down there? Below the Edge of Darkness takes readers deep into our planet’s oceans as Widder pursues her questions about one of the most important and widely used forms of communication in nature. Concerns about her future career vanished. She turned off the lights and witnessed breathtaking underwater fireworks: explosions of bioluminescent activity. Widder’s first journey into the deep ocean, in a diving suit that resembled a suit of armor, took her to a depth of eight hundred feet. With little promise of funding or employment, she leaped at the first opportunity to train as a submersible pilot and dove into the darkness. As her vision cleared, Widder found the intersection of her two passions in oceanic bioluminescence, a little-explored scientific field within Earth’s last great unknown frontier: the deep ocean. A new reality of shifting shadows drew her fascination to the power of light-as well as the importance of optimism. She’s done things I dream of doing.”-James Cameron Edith Widder’s childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist was almost derailed in college, when complications from a surgery gone wrong caused temporary blindness. “Edith Widder’s story is one of hardscrabble optimism, two-fisted exploration, and groundbreaking research.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKLIST
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Download nowĪ pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence-the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness-and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth in this “thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure” (The New York Times Book Review). Nominated for a National Book Award when it was first published in 1962, Frederic Morton's The Rothschllds is here reissued with a new afterword by the author, bringing the tale of this extraordinary family to the present. Through it all, the Rothschild name has continued to represent the family ideal: a shrewd business and financial sense, activity in the Jewish community and the arts, and an always luxurious-and often eccentric-lifestyle. The family itself has been at the center of some of the most crucial moments in history: the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the development of the Suez Canal, the introduction of Jews in the House of Lords.
Here you'll meet characters as lively as you can imagine: Mayer, long-time advisor to Germany's princes, who broke through the barriers of a Frankfurt ghetto and placed his family on the road to wealth and power Lord Alfred, who maintained a private train, private orchestra (which he conducted), and private circus (of which he was ringmaster) Baron Philippe, whose rarefied vintages bear labels created by great artists, among them Picasso, Dali, and Haring and Kathleen Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, the "jazz baroness," in whose arms Charlie Parker died. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life.
No family in the past two centuries has been so constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE Long regarded as the most magical of the European dynasties, the Rothschild family today remains one of the most powerful and wealthy in the world.
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