Great books to collect and enjoy
I am an avid second hand book collector and spend dry time visiting any book stores that happen to be in places that I travel to. I am going to list below the books that I have and that I will be reviewing.
If you see ** next to a book....don't bother to wait for me to get round to reviewing it, just buy it!
Great history or retrospectives:
- Stars beneath the Sea - The Pioneers of Diving by Trevor Norton **
- The Silent World - Jacques Cousteau **
- The Living Sea - Jacques Cousteau
- Captain Cousteau's Underwater Treasury - Jacques Cousteau
- The Undersea Adventure - Philippe Diole
- To Hidden Depths - Philippe Tailliez
- The Arcturus Adventure - William Beebe
- Man Under the Sea - James Duggan
- The Complete Manual of Free Diving - Cousteau, Tailliez and Dumas
- Man and the Underwater World - Pierre De Latil & Jean Rivoire
- The Complete Illustrated Guide to Snorkeling and Deep Diving - Owen Lee
- Basic Scuba - Its operation, maintenance and use - Fred Roberts
- We Come from the Sea - Hans Hass **
- Men and Sharks - Hans Hass
- 30 Centuries Under the Sea - Frederic Dumas
- Lady with a Spear - Eugenie Clark
More modern books
- Neutral Buoyancy -
- Dark Descent - Kevin F Murray
- The Last Dive - Bernard Chowdhury
- Deep Descent - Adventure and Death on the Andrea Doria - Kevin Murray **
- Fatal Depth - Andrea Doria - Joe Haberstroh **
- Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson
- Andrea Doria - Gary Gentile (and other Gary Gentile books)
- Descent into Darkness - Pearl Harbor,1941
- Submerged - Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archaeological Team - Daniel Lenihan *****
Under water movie makers and stars
- The Story of Skin Diving - Flippers and Mask - Lloyd Bridges
- Take Me Under the Sea - The Dream Merchants of the Deep - Thomas Burgess
Submarines, bathyspheres and iron suits
- Descent - The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss - Brad Matesen
- The Sun Beneath the Sea - Jacques Piccard
- Monturiol's Dream - Matthew Stewart
- The Terrible Hours - Peter Mass ***
Local interest
- Deep Dark and Dangerous - NW Salvage Divers - Rebecca Harrison **
- Northwest Wreck Dives - Scott Boyd and Jeff Carr **
Great fiction:
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne **
