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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss ハードカバー – イラスト付き, 2007/3/15
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On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters&;the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop. And the deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness since the dawn of time, occupies 85% of ocean space, forming the planet&;s largest habitat. Yet these depths abound with mystery. The deep sea is mostly uncharted&;only about 5 percent of the seafloor has been mapped with any reasonable degree of detail&;and we know very little about the creatures that call it home. Current estimates about the number of species yet to be found vary between ten and thirty million. The deep sea no longer has anything to prove; it is without doubt Earth&;s largest reservoir of life.
Combining the latest scientific discoveries with astonishing color imagery, The Deep takes readers on a voyage into the darkest realms of the ocean. Revealing nature&;s oddest and most mesmerizing creatures in crystalline detail, The Deep features more than two hundred color photographs of terrifying sea monsters, living fossils, and ethereal bioluminescent creatures, some photographed here for the very first time. Accompanying these breathtaking photographs are contributions from some of the world&;s most respected researchers that examine the biology of deep-sea organisms, the ecology of deep-sea habitats, and the history of deep-sea exploration.
An unforgettable visual and scientific tour of the teeming abyss, The Deep celebrates the incredible diversity of life on Earth and will captivate anyone intrigued by the unseen&;and unimaginable&;creatures of the deep sea.
- 本の長さ252ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Univ of Chicago Pr
- 発売日2007/3/15
- 寸法30.73 x 26.11 x 2.9 cm
- ISBN-100226595668
- ISBN-13978-0226595665
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Here is a book that does justice to this amazing environment and its inhabitants. The text is written by oceanographers from marine institutions across the globe. They have supplied short, readable introductions to their areas of interest, packed with bites of breathtaking information. Stunning underwater photographs are given full pages or spreads in this large-format hardback book to reveal all their glorious detail--each caption clearly stating the animals' actual size to put them into context. Another helpful feature is the scale on the bookflap that matches up to a mark on each photo, showing the maximum depth at which each species is found.
-- "BBC Wildlife Magazine" (6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)Many beautiful coffee-table books celebrate the world's oceans...but few, if any, are dedicated to the life of the ocean's deeps, which most of us will never see otherwise. Readers will pick up science journalist Nouvian's book for its stunning, 200-plus full-page color photographs of dumbo octopi, vampire squid, frilled sharks, and hydrothermal vent worms; they will hang on to it for the well-written, extremely informative text. Extensive captions speak to each creature's lifestyle and habitat, while short guest chapters by eminent scientists and Nouvian's additional text provide background information on the deep ocean and its exploration.
-- "Library Journal"'Don't give away that book!' so exclaimed my 12-year-old daughter. . . . Since arriving, The Deep has been sitting on my coffee table, thumbed through by kifs and adults alike. I sat down and read it cover to cover. --Ellen Kappel "Oceanography"
Amazing photographs and essays by scientists introduce the strange, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying deep-sea creatures that live in the largest, most mysterious ecosystem on the planet.--Best Books for Yound Adults, Young Adult Library Services Association --Young Adult Library Services Association "Best Books for Yound Adults"
An excellent resource for high school science teachers (or English teachers looking for informative non-fiction reading material).-- "American Educator" (1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM)
Did you know that only about 5 percent of the deep-sea floor has been mapped in any detail? Absolutely astonishing photos of the species living in those ground-floor apartments. Gives new meaning to the phrase 'I'm not going there.'-- "Philadelphia Inquirer" (12/16/2007 12:00:00 AM)
No amount of explanation can do justice to thes images. Go down to your local bookstore and leaf through a copy to get the full effect. Once you've been antranced by the bizarre and wonderful creatures you will be eager to learn about them and their world. This is the perfect gift for anyone from a serious undersea enthusiast to someone who likes to look at pictures of wacky things.-- "MSNBC/The Today Show"
The brilliant photography conveys the mix of beauty, mystery, and nightmare in these creatures . . . all backed up with excellent essays from the world's top marine biologists.--Fergus Collins "BBC Focus Magazine"
This book presents creatures living at mid-sea to ocean deep in all their gelatinous glory of color, lights, tendrils, and other adaptive appendages. More than a memory book of images of the deep, The Deep introduces the reader to research questions driving expert oceanographic researchers to exotic deep-sea locations. . . . A wonderful resource for almost any library, nature lover, and oceanographer, this book is a classic in the making.-- "Northeastern Naturalist" (12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)
The Deep demonstrate that some of the weirdest, most wonderful creatures may well remain undiscovered. For the past 25 years, one new deep-sea species -- from the neon-colored to the nearly invisible -- has been found each week. Estimates of those remaining undiscovered range from 10 million to 30 million. By the time all those creatures are cataloged, they may well have beggared the capacity of human language to describe them. The Deep already showcases a circus menagerie that includes the ping pong tree sponge, the fangtooth, the red paper lantern medusa, the glowing sucker octopus, the vampire squid -- for whom the expression bat out of hell would seem to have been invented-- and the pigbutt worm (a pair of flying buttocks). Hailed when it was released in March, The Deep features 160 photos and 15 essays by deep-sea biologists. The Earth -- or at least the wildly extravagant oceans that constitute our largest ecosystem -- can still be wondrous strange, stranger than anything science fiction has imagined.--Jerome Weeks "NPR.org" (11/28/2007 12:00:00 AM)
"[A] stunning collection of more than 160 color photos. . . . Species from as far down as four and a half miles are depicted in exquisite detail; most are mere centimeters long, though the giant squid, a timid creature despite its size, grows to almost 60 feet. Fifteen short, jargon-free essays assembled by editor and French journalist Nouvian . . . flesh out the fantastical images with scientific fact. They dismiss the myth of deep sea monsters and describe the amazing persistence of life around hydrothermal vents and methane flues; a thoughtful glossary adds to this impressive book's popular appeal."
-- "Publishers Weekly""The book is composed of giant (frequently larger-than-life-size) photographs of deep-sea creatures: the gelatinous Pandea rubra, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a police strobe light; the seed-like larvae of the Spantagoid heart urchin, whose appendages stretch at near-perfect right angles; glass octopi like living x-rays, frilled sharks, furry lobsters. In all, nearly 200 creatures, some of which have never been photographed before, many of which are unknown species, all of which seem unreal, incomprehensible even. Nouvian divides the organisms roughly in half--'Life at the Bottom' is one cluster, 'Life in the Water Column' another--and intersperses the photos with short essays written by marine biologists from around the world. These pieces cover everything from the history of deep-sea exploration to the truth about sea monsters to the science behind bioluminescence ('without any doubt the most widely used mode of communication on the planet') and, thankfully, are both excellently written and spare. They provide background without ever detracting from the point--the creatures themselves. Early on, Nouvian includes a telling quote by deep-sea explorer Robert Ballard (of Titanic-discovery fame): 'At a time when most think of outer space as the final frontier, we must remember that a great deal of unfinished business remains here on Earth.' The Deep highlights just how accurate that outlook is."
--Abby Seiff "Popular Science blog" (5/16/2007 12:00:00 AM)A luminous voyage to the bottom of the sea. . . . Each of the 200-odd photographs in this book is in color. Bejeweled creatures--squid, comb jellies, octopuses, and tube worms--leap off the black pages in such a luminescent rainbow that you can't help but realize that the 'blackness' of the depths is a misnomer. In many case, photographs of these organisms appear in this book for the first time anywhere. . . . Such intimate photographs are surely the book's triumph. But an articulate and informative commentary accompanies them.
--Richard Ellis "Discover" (4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)Each squid, jellyfish, and deepsea worm is posed in all its baroque extravagance against a stark black background, occupying a full or double-page spread. The effect is startling, like a series of underwater mug shots crafted by Fabergé. Ms. Nouvian ... has enlisted 15 scientists from such research institutes as the Smithsonian, Woods Hole, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium itself, to contribute brief but lively reports on everything from 'sharks of the dark' to methane seeps and hydrothermal vents. There is a handy depth chart keyed to each image, a glossary, a page of interesting oceanic statistics, and a good bibliography.Good as the texts and aids are, the images carry the book; they are simply spectacular.
--Eric Ormsby "New York Sun" (5/23/2007 12:00:00 AM)In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder--in a bout of oceanic hubris--pronounced that there were precisely 176 species of marine fauna and that, 'by Hercules, in the ocean . . . nothing exists which is unknown for us.' Would that we could summon Pliny from his celestial Hall of Shame and thwack him over the head with Claire Nouvian's The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. For this book contains 220 color plates of life-forms whose existence was unknown not merely to Pliny but to anyone at all until the modern development of submersibles capable of plunging to depths that are the inverse of a Mount Everest. Only 5% of the seafloor has been mapped, and scientists estimate that there are between 10 million and 30 million species in the 'vasty deep' yet to be found by man. The ones that we do know--and many of those are pictured in this book--are gloriously bizarre critters that appear to have been fashioned by Salvador Dali. They bear pulse-quickening names that are as if from some weird children's fable: naked sea butterflies, spookfish, pigbutt worms, cutthroat eels, helmet jellies, glasshead grenadiers and yeti crabs. Hued in pink, red, blue, orange, white and purple, these deep-sea denizens can seem repulsive, with their fangs and hooks and hooded eyes. Many of them, however, are balletic little beauties--bioluminescent, geometrical designs that hum with a life beyond our reach, but not, anymore, beyond our imagination.
--Tunku Varadarajan "Wall Street Journal" (3/10/2007 12:00:00 AM)No photo collection could replicate a visit to their realm or the breadth of the diversity to be found there, but Claire Nouvian's The Deep, with more than 200 large-format photos, comes closer than any previous book....The Deep offers spectacular views of such marvels as bioluminescent dragonfishes and a googly-eyed glass squid. Other animals have less colourful names, but are exquisitely beautiful. It is difficult to imagine anyone who would not be enchanted by the creatures on display. . . . The deep's creatures are beautiful, bizarre and at times even grotesque enough to capture attention without any fashion photography. This wealth of photos just needed to be made available; in doing so, Nouvian has done both the field and the public a service.
--Mark Schrope "Nature" (6/21/2007 12:00:00 AM)Nouvian's The Deep features more than 200 color portraits of the planet's least-known creatures: sparkling pink octopi like floating lanterns; iridescent squid with corkscrew tails; predatory fish with hooded eyes and translucent teeth looming in the darkness. Some of these are the first-ever photographs of certain organisms. At least eight of the pictures feature animals so unknown that Nouvian's captions list them as 'unidentified.' To page through her book is to feel as if you are peering at life on another planet: It is a vision of the deep as a vast, balletic swarm of nature's inventiveness.
--Anthony Doerr "Boston Globe" (5/20/2007 12:00:00 AM)This is the volume that many of us who have spent our lives exploring the deep sea have longed to have adorn our coffee table. The images throughout this large, pictorial book are simply breathtaking. They represent a collection of some of the finest images ever taken in the depths of the ocean by researchers throughout the world ... The book inspires awe and is worthy of occupying a special place in anyone's home or office.
--Richard Lutz "Quarterly Review of Biology" (9/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)"Claire Nouvian's wondrous book The Deep contains the finest collection of photographs of the denizens of the deep that I know of.--Tim Flannery "New York Review of Books" (12/20/2007 12:00:00 AM)
Astounding. . . The Deep is far more than an exploration of these strange ecosystems. It is a remarkable visual tour through the entire deep ocean. . . . The images astonish. Set against the inky black of the deep, a glowing sucker octopus Stauroteuthis syrtensis leaps from the page, a pink ballerina complete with a fairy-light display. A gelatinous siphonophore, a type of colonial jellyfish, releases a dazzling lightshow of bioluminescence from its toxic tentacles. Tiburonia granrojo, known to the submersible pilots as "big red", an incongruous, metre-wide velvet mushroom-like jelly hangs in the black, dimensionless deep.--Adrian Glover "Times Literary Supplement" (3/19/2008 12:00:00 AM)
Bizarre species from as far down as four and half miles are shown in remarkable detail, their tentacles lashing, eyes bulging, lights flashing. The eerie translucence of many of the gelatinous creatures seems to defy common sense. They seem to be living water. On page after page, it is as if aliens had descended from another world to amaze and delight. A small octopus looks like a child's squeeze toy. A seadevil looks like something out of a bad dream. A Ping-Pong tree sponge rivals artwork that might be seen in an upscale gallery. Interspersed among 220 color photographs are essays by some of the world's top experts on deep-sea life that reflect on what lies beneath.--William Broad "New York Times" (5/22/2007 12:00:00 AM)
In The Deep, journalist Claire Nouvian has assembled a portrait gallery of these exotic creatures, accompanied by eloquent essays by more than a dozen ocean scientists. The denizens of the deep are so bizarre they seem to have been sculpted by Salvador Dalí on acid. Fish with skeletal heads and protruding fangs glower into the camera, some with lower teeth so long that a reckless bite could take out their own eyeballs. Smooth-skinned octopuses float in the blackness, resembling embryos attached to bundles of wormlike tentacles. Other creatures look like ball-point pens, paper lanterns, baby's buttocks, and Pokémon cartoon figures, while the spooky vampire squid reminded me of a bat's head grafted onto the webbed foot of a duck.--Laurence A. Marshall "Natural History" (12/31/2007 12:00:00 AM)
Outstanding images of deep-sea life drape the pages of The Deep. Inevitably these include the fish that can, in the words of deep-sea pioneer William Beebe, 'outdragon' any figment of human imagination. Equally welcome is the showing this book gives to invertebrates. My favourite is the giant isopod Bathynomus, whose alien face looms out at us. This visual feast is accompanied by equally evocative essays from deep-sea biologists: Cindy Van Dover, director of Duke University's marine lab in North Carolina, narrates a history of deep-sea exploration, for example, while Craig Young, director of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, describes the scale of the ocean floor. Words and images combine to convey what we know--and how much we don't know--about life in our planet's largest habitat.--Jon Copley "New Scientist" (4/27/2007 12:00:00 AM)
This superbly designed large-format book of photographs of deep-sea creatures, eloquently edited by a French journalist and film director, with brief and highly readable contributions from sixteen leading scientific explorers of the deep, is eye-poppingly magnificent. So much so that it provokes gasps of amazement and awe at the complexity, beauty and uniqueness of life in the abyss. One frequently finds oneself wondering whether the weird creatures floating in the darkness like visiting space aliens can really exist--except in the minds of special-effects artists. . . . Easily in the same visual league as the BBC's series Planet Earth, The Deep provides a lot more knowledge than the television series for those who want it, without at any point overwhelming the non-biologist reader. . . .The Deep deserves to become a modern classic of natural history.--Andrew Robinson "Literary Review" (5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)
著者について
Claire Nouvian is a journalist, producer, and film director who has traveled the world for more than ten years, shooting wildlife for French and international television. She has worked on more than sixteen films, among them Expedition to the Abyss (Science Channel, 2004), which won the Best Adventure Documentary prize at the Amazonas World Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil, 2005.
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- 出版社 : Univ of Chicago Pr; Illustrated版 (2007/3/15)
- 発売日 : 2007/3/15
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 252ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0226595668
- ISBN-13 : 978-0226595665
- 寸法 : 30.73 x 26.11 x 2.9 cm
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
素晴らしいです。
大判で美しい深海生物の写真の数々。ため息がでます。
写真の点数を数えたわけではありませんが、150枚以上あるでしょう。
ほとんどの写真が1ページ全体あるいは見開きを占めています。
つまり、デカくて美しい写真がいっぱい。
以下のページでサンプルを見ることが出来ます。
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実際のページはこれらサンプルよりも大きく、精細で何倍もの迫力があります。
またほとんどの写真について、学名が記されています。
これが5千円以下というのは、本当にお買い得だと思います。
#ページの端に、各写真が撮影された深度を示すスケールがついているのは、面白い工夫ですね。
とにかく写真がすべて美しい!
深海魚の美しい写真がみたい!という方なら買っても後悔はしないと思います
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The deep dark ocean is by far the largest habitat on earth and it is teaming with life much of it unknown. The oceans correspond to 99% of the Earth’s habitable space and the very deep sea below 1,000 meters corresponds to 85% of the Earth’s habitable space. Below 200 meters (656 feet) there is no plant life and below about 1,000 meters (3281 feet) there is no sun light at all. However, various forms of nourishment are trickling down from the surface, and there are hydrothermal vents, and naturally deep sea predators prey on other deep sea living creatures. Fish and other creatures have found a niche here and many animals come here to avoid surface predators.
Light is very important deep down in the darkness. Glowing bacteria on fecal matter sinking down from the surface help animals locate it. Light is used to locate prey and nourishment and for camouflage. 80-90% of all animals in the deep are bioluminescent. Some of the weirdest looking creatures that you can imagine live here and that is what this book is about.
Claire Nouvian is a journalist and researcher who decided to write a book about the deep seas. She could not find a single comprehensive and attractive source of information about the deep seas for the general public and therefore she decided to create one. She collected information, photographs, and videos gathered by various oceanographers over a period 20-25 years. She put the most amazing footage and facts that she could find into this book. A very large group of scientists helped her with the project.
The book contains a lot of facts similar to what I presented in my first paragraphs above. It also describes the deep seas, the environment, the various habitats, and what kind of creatures you can find where in different parts of the ocean and how they live. Claire Nouvian is also very concerned about environmental issues and the impact we humans have on our planet. Therefore, the book is partially focused on the environmental impact of humans on the deep seas, a topic which is little understood.
Since we have harvested so much resources and fish at the ocean’s surface fisheries have had to resort to deep-sea trawling, which not only removes fish from the deep sea but also destroys the ocean floor and deep sea coral reefs (yes there are such things). Global warming and the related sea water acidification is another environmental issue discussed. What is so scary is that the environmental impact on the deep sea cannot easily be accessed since so little is known about the deep seas.
The book is a large hardbound coffee table book with 258 pages. It is divided into 20 chapters. A few of the chapters are; “Deep Trenches the Ultimate Abysses”, “Hydrothermal Vents”, “Evolution Caught Red Handed”, “Monsters of the Deep”, and “Living Lights in the Sea”. The book also has a glossary, an index, a bibliography, and a section featuring deep ocean facts. The information in the book is fascinating and easily accessible, it is well organized and well presented, and Claire Nouvian is clearly an excellent and inspiring author. It should be noted that all metrics used in the book are in meters (not feet), which I see as an advantage.
The most impressive aspect of the book are the several hundred large color photographs of various strange deep sea creatures. Some of the deep sea creatures depicted are big such as the giant squids, some of them are transparent, many of them are bioluminescent, many of them are colorful, and many of them look extremely weird and scary. Some of the photographs are high resolution photographs and some of them are a little fuzzy, but in either case the photographs are fascinating. One interesting aspect of the photos is that all of them have a marker that indicates the depth where the photographed creature can be found (0 – 9,000 meters or 0 to 29,528 feet). It should be noted that there are five images that look like photographs but that are in fact computer generated images. However, this is indicated next to the image. The images of the giant squids are computer generated images. In summary, I love this book.
As the book makes clear, "The Deep" is larger than the land, the "shallow" reachable be scuba divers and the "air" occupied by birds all combined. It may have more species than all these other areas combined. And we know less about it (and spend a tiny fraction as much exploring) than the other planets in our solar system.
The cover picture is typical of what is inside. Most of these creatures look like nothing you have seen before. The text does a reasonable job of explaining why they look like they do and what is known about their lives. But the overwhelming message is that we know very little.
The best natural science book I've seen in many years. Beautiful, informative but left me wondering.
Ein toller Bildband den ich ohne Bedenken weiter empfehlen würde.