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Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder
3 reviews
seasidefaye13's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This book is so inspiring and truly captures the wonder and beauty of the deep ocean. As someone who has loved the ocean from a young age, I feel more inclined to do what I can to preserve our oceans and the creatures that live within it.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
Moderate: Confinement, Vomit, Excrement, and Cannibalism
Minor: Death and War
billyjepma's review
adventurous
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
4.0
An excellent, insightful, and an ultimately hopeful memoir about science, discovery, and perseverance. Widder isn't a writer by trade, which she admits to, so the writing of her memoir is somewhat of a mixed bag, but the quality and richness of her material make up for it. The memoir bits aren't integrated into the scientific aspects as smoothly as I had hoped. Still, they complement each other and give the book a level of accessibility it probably wouldn't have had otherwise.
I love the ocean and have been enchanted by its mystery and impossible vastness since I was a kid, so it's not like this book would be a hard sell for me. I love Widder's passion for her work, and her enthusiasm is infectious even in the denser, more jargon-heavy sections (of which there are several). I'm so glad the book exists and hope it sells a lot of copies because more people, myself included, need resources like this one that can educate them on the incredible (and increasingly fragile) nature of our planet and inspire them to action.
I love the ocean and have been enchanted by its mystery and impossible vastness since I was a kid, so it's not like this book would be a hard sell for me. I love Widder's passion for her work, and her enthusiasm is infectious even in the denser, more jargon-heavy sections (of which there are several). I'm so glad the book exists and hope it sells a lot of copies because more people, myself included, need resources like this one that can educate them on the incredible (and increasingly fragile) nature of our planet and inspire them to action.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
Minor: Death
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