Deep below the oceans' surface lies an alien world that even today we have only just begun to explore. The quest to understand the sea bed began in 1872 when HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth on the first sea voyage devoted to science. One of the expedition's most important objectives was to gather the evidence necessary to prove, or refute, Darwin's new theory of evolution. Sailing for three and half years and almost 69,000 nautical miles, scientists and crew alike braved the stifling heat of the tropics for months on end only to suffer the stupefying cold of the Antarctic, enduring danger on the high seas, risking all in the pursuit of knowledge. The undertaking was nothing short of a roaring success. Challenger dredged up thousands of samples from the sea floor while mapping enormous areas of undersea terrain. Most startling of all was the revelation that the ocean was not a barren graveyard, but a gloriously complex ecosystem teeming with life. Drawing from official documentation and the journals of the ship's scientists and crew, The Silent Landscape recounts the story of this extraordinary voyage.But Richard Corfield also brings a twenty-first century perspective to bear on Challenger's research and discoveries, illuminating the science of that nineteenth century voyage with the most current oceanographic information available.
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'A short, readable volume ... entertaining and informative ... The Silent Landscape is indeed successful.' (Nature 20040513)
'A brilliant account ... It will captivate anyone interested in the real life adventures of science and exploration.' (Philippe Cousteau 20040513)
'An extraordinary book about the ocean floor ... an historic first' (The Washington Times 20040513)
'A fascinating journey through space and time ... it contains a wealth of intriguing detail' (David Sington, Director of the BBC series Eart 20040513)
'The Silent Landscape beautifully documents the adventure, the science and the future science of the voyage.' (Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 Astronaut 20040513)
'Corfield writes with the insight that comes from personal experience in research at sea ... outstanding.' Richard Shelton. (Times Literary Supplement 20050225)
'Corfield buttresses the Challenger account with related tales ... giving us some insight into what else might have been uncovered had more modern technology been on the Scientifics' side'. (Literary Review 20050401)
Richard Corfield is an earth scientist based at Oxford University. Educated at Bristol and Cambridge Universities, he is a regular feature writer for popular magazines in the natural sciences. The Silent Landscape is his second book. He lives in Oxfordshire, with his wife and two children.
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