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Times Literary Supplement
'Corfield writes with the insight that comes from personal experience in research at sea ... outstanding.' Richard Shelton.
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‘A fascinating journey through space and time... Written with the authentic voice of experience, it contains a wealth of intriguing detail’ (David Sington, director of the BBC series Earth St )
‘A brilliant account of the fascinating voyage of HMS Challenger and her pioneering crew. It will captivate anyone interested in the real life adventures of science and exploration.’ (Philippe Cousteau )
‘This is an authoritative book on its subject – comprehensive, witty and accessible without an over-subservience to popularism. Highly recommended reading on science’ (Word on Books )
‘An extraordinary book about the ocean floor ... It is the particular charm of The Silent Landscape that the wads of pure science can never quite bury what is a fascinating story, and a new one. One side of this book is a scientific treatise, the other is the history of the first truly modern attempt to gather data and check theories about the “silent landscape” of the oceanic floor, an historic first’ (The Washington Times )
‘Corfield buttresses the Challenger account with related tales...giving us some insight into what else might have been uncovered had more modern technology been on the Scientifics’ side’. (Literary Review )
'Corfield writes with the insight that comes from personal experience in research at sea ... outstanding.' Richard Shelton. (Times Literary Supplement )
‘A brilliant account of the fascinating voyage of HMS Challenger and her pioneering crew. It will captivate anyone interested in the real life adventures of science and exploration.’ (Philippe Cousteau )
‘This is an authoritative book on its subject – comprehensive, witty and accessible without an over-subservience to popularism. Highly recommended reading on science’ (Word on Books )
‘An extraordinary book about the ocean floor ... It is the particular charm of The Silent Landscape that the wads of pure science can never quite bury what is a fascinating story, and a new one. One side of this book is a scientific treatise, the other is the history of the first truly modern attempt to gather data and check theories about the “silent landscape” of the oceanic floor, an historic first’ (The Washington Times )
‘Corfield buttresses the Challenger account with related tales...giving us some insight into what else might have been uncovered had more modern technology been on the Scientifics’ side’. (Literary Review )
'Corfield writes with the insight that comes from personal experience in research at sea ... outstanding.' Richard Shelton. (Times Literary Supplement )
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