The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea

Tony Koslow is director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California.

"Koslow deals a decisive blow to the notion that the deep sea can ever be immune from unregulated human activities.... The historical review of deep-sea biology is the most comprehensive I have ever read." - Adrian Glover, Times Literary Supplement "Deeply informed by history and rendered in straightforward, careful prose." - Anthony Doerr, Boston Globe "This beautifully produced book tells an urgent story with clarity and grace." - Choice "Stands apart from other books about life in the abyss due to Tony Koslow's thoughtful accounts.... He succeeds in painting a picture of the deep sea as an environment with inherent and threatened value." - Science "Textbook depth on all aspects of deep-sea science and conservation.... An exhaustively researched and referenced volume with a historical review stretching back to Socrates." - Mark Schrope, Nature "An important textbook and viewpoint that is highly recommended for anyone with a professional or personal interest in deep-sea ecosystems." - Quarterly Review of Biology "The Silent Deep teaches us an important lesson. The ocean depths are not some hellish and distant zone, but are an element of our living planet which is connected in very intimate and immediate ways to ourselves. They are also our last frontier, where wonders innumerable await the next generation of brave bathynauts who choose to journey there." - New York Review of Books"