The anglerfish with its sharp teeth and glowing lure is the poster child of the deep, although the deepest living fish recorded to date is a benign-looking snailfish. Far from uniform, cold, dark and slow, the deep sea is a kaleidoscope of life forms, moving particles, invisible boundaries and boundless spaces. Featuring extensive research and interviews with leading scientists, this book follows deep-sea science from the Challenger Expedition (1872–1876) to the present day, exploring how perceptions of the deep have changed and tracing the origins of our misconceptions. Above all, it chronicles the transformation of the deep sea from an ill-defined inner space into a multitude of environments.
This book does not merely open up an entirely new dimension of the Earth to us as readers and as scholars; it ultimately makes a novel case for the humanities in general, and especially for the craft and technology of writing, as an essential part of making environment.

With a foreword by Sverker Sörlin and Nina Wormbs.