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THE GREAT IRON SHIP
James Dugan.
Initially published by Hamish Hamilton. Edition shown
is by The Non-Fiction Book Club, London, no date, probably early 1960s.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 224 pges, index, mono plates.
Dugan is the author of several 'underwater' books, two
with Cousteau. The Grat iron Ship is a fascinating book, but I do not personally
like Dugan's style of writing - perhaps it is in the interpretation as
I am sure he is French, having been a regular crewmember of the Calypso.
The ship is of course Brunel's Great Eastern. The book is predominantly
about the laying of the Atlantic Cable, and its pre-cable economic woes,
and post-cable adventures.
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UNDERWATER SCIENCE
An Introduction to Experiments by Divers.
J.D.Woods and J.N.Lythgoe.
Published in 1971 by Oxford University Press, London.
ISBM 0 19 217622 6.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 330 pages, mono drawings and charts,
index. An excellent book covering a variety of scientific and semi-scientific
experiments by a number of authors including Nic Fleming (Geomorphology),
Joan Du Plat Taylor (Archaeology), Helen Ross (Spacial Perception in Water),
A.D.Baddeley (Diver Performance); also Apparatus and Methods for the Diving
Scientist, Vision, Fish Behaviour, Botant, and Micro-oceanography. [ps] |
