Stars beneath the sea
Subtitle: the pioneers of diving
By: Trevor Norton.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Deep diving -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-278).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Before you submerge; title: The way of the native; title: A serious sinker. Guy Gilpatric; title: Dress informal, buckets will be worn; title: Armed only with a pickaxe. Henri Milne Edwards; title: The very nearly man. Roy Miner; title: The delights of dangling. William Beebe; title: Running on treacle. Jack Kitching; title: Thinkers and sinkers; title: The absent-minded professor. John Haldane; title: The cuddly cactus in the chamber of horrors. J. B.S. Haldane; title: Boom! Cameron Wright; title: Shots in the dark; title: A cultured pearl. Louis Boutan; title: The man with the amazing tube. Ernest Williamson; title: Divingto adventure. Hans Hass; title: Down to the past; title: The silent partner. Fr4deric Dumas; title: The finder of lost ships. Peter Throckmorton; title: Coming up for air; title: References; title: Sources.