Below the Edge of Darkness
- Author Edith Widder
- Narrator Allyson Ryan
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 11 hours and 56 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: adventurers and explorers, Biography: general, Earth sciences, Geographical discovery and exploration, Oceanography (seas and oceans).
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What to expect
Critics Review
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A thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure
New York Times Book Review -
A vivid account of ocean life… Stylish, eloquent
Guardian Book of the Day -
Edie’s story is one of hardscrabble optimism, two-fisted exploration and groundbreaking research. As I’ve said many times, I’d have wrapped my submersible, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, in bacon if it would have lured the elusive giant squid from the depths. In Below the Edge of Darkness, Edie tells you how she did it
James Cameron -
To shed light on a subject is what any scientific book should do. To go into it in depth without losing the reader is a harder task. Edith Widder’s subject is light itself – the manufacture of light by strange and eerie denizens of the deep sea – and her scintillating style is worthy of it. This is a book to delight the general reader while simultaneously informing the professional: a book of marvels, marvellously written
Richard Dawkins -
My experience of exploring the deep ocean and its alien life with Edie Widder was fabulous. She enthrals us with many such stories in her book. I recommend it
Ray Dalio -
Personal and page-turning, adventurous and awe-inspiring, Below the Edge of Darkness sparkles with the thrill of exploration and glows with an urgent plea for the future of our precious seas. Comparisons to Jacques Cousteau spring to mind, as Edith Widder shares the profound journey of her life -one as unique and important as the unexplored realms of our very own planet
Juli Berwald, author of Spineless: the Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
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