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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
James Nestor
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Description for Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: PSPM; RBKC; WNCS1; WSE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
From the author of the international Bestseller Breath Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen. Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose and ears, and sometimes they don't come up at all. The free divers were ... Read more
From the author of the international Bestseller Breath Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen. Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose and ears, and sometimes they don't come up at all. The free divers were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
255g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781250662
SKU
V9781781250662
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About James Nestor
James Nestor has written for publications including Outside Magazine, The New York Times, Men's Journal and San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. An inveterate adventurer, Nestor joined a doomed surfing expedition to Norway and Russia, in which he and his team became the first to ride the breaks of the Arctic Circle. He has travelled extensively in Central America and the South ... Read more
Reviews for Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
A fascinating, informative, exhilarating book.
Wall Street Journal
Idiosyncratic and Illuminating... Deep demonstrates that a rich, life-filled, mysterious realm of vast possibility is contained in that blackness. It will certainly enrich the thinking of anyone planning to spend time at the beach.
Horatio Clare
The Independent
Deep is a heartfelt, eccentric and pleasantly eccentric ... Read more
Wall Street Journal
Idiosyncratic and Illuminating... Deep demonstrates that a rich, life-filled, mysterious realm of vast possibility is contained in that blackness. It will certainly enrich the thinking of anyone planning to spend time at the beach.
Horatio Clare
The Independent
Deep is a heartfelt, eccentric and pleasantly eccentric ... Read more