Description
Man Under the Sea, Adventures of the undersea from Alexander the Great to Captain Cousteau
James Dugan
FIRST EDITION
Hardback with dust jacket in polythene jacket. Dust jacket is heavily worn with pieces missing from the top edge especially. Decorative endpapers; front endpaper tanned as are following two pages – probably from a loose sheet which has since been removed. Other pages in very good condition. Two bookplates on inside front endpaper.
Contents include: Ancient free diving; Sir Robert Davis and the diving helmet; Laws of pressure; Sunken treasure; Submarine warfare; Underwater photography; Underwater archaeology; Underwater hunters; Undersea exploration.
332 pages
Black and white photographs and illustrations
165 mm x 240 mm (6.5 in x 9.5 in)
1956, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York