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Summary of The Underworld by Susan Casey: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book. Summary of The Underworld by Susan Casey: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET: Chapter astute outline of the main contents. Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis. Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book The Underworld is a captivating book by Susan Casey, a bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus. The book explores the mysterious world beneath the waves and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. The deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror for centuries, but cutting-edge technologies have allowed scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface. The underwater world is home to pink gelatinous predators, shimmering creatures, ancient animals with glass skeletons, and sharks that live for half a millennium. Casey's journey takes readers on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration, from myths and legends to storied shipwrecks and the first intrepid bathysphere pilots. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the deep ocean's complexity and ecological importance in a time of increasing threats from climate change, industrial fishing, pollution, and mining companies.
The Underworld
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An awe-inspiring 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, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose.' Sy Montgomery, author of Soul of an Octopus 'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington Post 'A fascinating history' Time 'Casey’s descriptions of the shimmeringly strange life teeming below the waves capture her wonder and ravishment in prose that morphs into poetry . . . Entralling' Boston Globe ________________________________________ For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of fear and fascination, an unknowable realm that evokes a singular, compelling question: what’s down there? But now cutting-edge 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 this vast unseen realm. And she discovers the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the abyssal ocean and the quadrillions of creatures who live in its depths.
Myths of the Underworld Journey
Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2004-09-20
This book was first published in 2004. Plato, Aristophanes and the creators of the 'Orphic' gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through a close analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition. For these authors, myth is an agonistic discourse, neither a kind of sacred dogma nor a mere literary diversion, but rather a flexible tool that serves the wide variety of uses to which it is put. The traditional tale of the journey to the Underworld in Greek mythology is neither simple nor single, but each telling reveals a perspective on the cosmos, a reflection of the order of this world through the image of the other.