Fire in the Sea : Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep

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The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McKee, David A., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Compton, Henry, > 1928-2005.
Marine biologists.
Marine artists.
Deep-sea fishes.
Bioluminescence.
Biology in art.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biochemistry.
Biologie dans l'art.
Marinistes > Texas > Biographies.
Biologistes de la vie marine > Texas > Biographies.
Deep-sea fishes > Pictorial works.
Deep-sea fishes > Classification.
Marine artists > Texas > Biography.
Marine biologists > Texas > Biography.
Texas.
Biographies.
Pictorial works.
Classification.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the first time in Texas waters. Upon returning, Compton would retire to the darkroom he had constructed beneath a stairwell at the lab and photogra
Descripción Física:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9781623491062

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