{"id":2608,"date":"2008-02-01T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-12T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T21:23:35","slug":"the-deep-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-deep-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa!  Boggling, bizarre and beautiful, the creatures evolving in the remote depths of the world&#8217;s oceans really are a trip. This book&#8217;s crisp close-ups allow astounding detail to pop out from the blackness: gorgeous mugshots of translucent octopi, technicolor jelly fish, and feathery pink iceworms (also seen in the previously-reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/ecology-of-the\/\">Ecology of the Deep Sea Vents<\/a>). I missed the book when it came out last spring; I&#8217;m thrilled it didn&#8217;t pass me by any longer than it did. Seventy years ago, explorer William Beebe put it this way: &#8220;Anyone who has actually seen this universe will keep an image of it in his memory forever; for its isolation, its cosmic cold, its eternal obscurity &#8212; and above all, for the indescribable beauty of the denizens of those regions.&#8221; Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Leckart<\/p>\n<p>The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss<br \/>\nClaire Nouvian<br \/>\n2007, 256 pages<br \/>\n$30<br \/>\nAvailable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0226595668\/ref=nosim\/?tag=cooltools-20\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sample Excerpts:<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"874\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DEEP_dumbo_octopus_EX-sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/DEEP_dumbo_octopus_EX-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"875\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DEEP_mertensia_EX-sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/DEEP_mertensia_EX-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"876\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DEEP_munnopsis_EX-sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/DEEP_munnopsis_EX-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"877\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DEEP_scaly_dragonfish_EX-sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/DEEP_scaly_dragonfish_EX-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"878\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DEEP_unid_species2_sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/DEEP_unid_species2_sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<p><em><strong>Related items previously reviewed in Cool Tools: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"reef-guides.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/reef-guides.jpg\" width=\"51\" height=\"60\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/coral-reef-guid\/\">Coral Reef Guides<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"eco-sphere.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/eco-sphere.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/ecocosmecospher\/\">EcoCosm\/EcoSphere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Naturalreef.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/Naturalreef.jpg\" width=\"59\" height=\"74\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/natural-reef-aq\/\">Natural Reef Aquariums<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographic exploration of the abyss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}